[Simh] installing VMS 1.5

[Wilm Boerhout]

William Pechter schreef op 15-2-2016 om 15:54:

[snip]
> Having installed 2.x back in the day -- IIRC you would need to get a 
> VMS machine running with DSC (disk save and compress)
> running on it and use that to restore the system.   It might be 
> possible to build bootable DSC on an RL pack
> on a different VAX (like an emulated 11/750) and then use that to 
> restore the 1.5.
>
>
That's what I did. I used a VMS 3.0 disk I had installed previously, old 
enough to contain good old DSC to copy the V1.5 installation tape to 
disk, instead of booting from the floppies (I could not find the floppy 
images mentioned in the V1.5 installation guide)

/Wilm