[Simh] Best way to 'P2V' a live VAX?

[Eric Smith]

What you guys are talking about here is just the sort of answer I've
been looking for -- the other direction.  I have a real uVAX 3900 that
had an older version of VMS on it when I got it, now has OpenBSD.  (I
MOP booted the VAX using mopd on Linux to install the OpenBSD on it)

But I have the VAX version of OpenVMS 7.3 which I've successfully run
under SIMH (on Linux) but would like to install on the real VAX.

BUT I can't figure out how to get the software onto the VAX since it's
on a CD.  It looks like what you guys are talking about here is the
answer -- but as I say, I don't know VMS well enough to follow the
general steps you've provided...defining disks, performing a backup,
changing permissions -- the sort of things that would be childsplay
for me with UNIX, but not with VMS...yet!

Anyone brave enough to spell these steps out more thoroughly so I
could give it a shot?

Thank you!!
Eric