How to speed up the VMSINSTAL Installation
This knowledge base entry explains the steps required to install
the DEC VAX or DEC ALPHA OpenVMS Progress products directly from disk
rather than from tape. Occasionally, you may not have the appropriate
device on the Digital system you ultimately want to install the
products on. Secondly, first restoring the product savesets to disk
and then running the VMSINSTAL Installation program directly from
disk speeds up the actual installation time. For this reason, the
following are the steps to accomplish this.
1. Load the tape in the appropriate tape drive.
2. Create a directory where you want to restore the saveset files to.
create/dir [.test_install]
3. Mount the tape.
$ mount/for <tape drive>
$ @sys$update:vmsinstall <product-list> <tape-device> options g
<dest-directory>
where:
<product-list> is the installation product name. See the Progress
Installation Notes.
<tape-device> is the tape drive name of where the Progress
Installation tape was loaded.
<dest-directory> is the full directory path where you want to
restore the saveset files to.
For Example:
$ @sys$update:vmsinstall progressc073c dka500: options g
dua0:[userdisk.test_install]
PROGRESSC073.A;1
PROGRESSC073.B;1
4. At this point you can now install the Progress Products directly
from disk which will shorten the installation time. Remember to
replace the full directory path of where the newly restored
savesets are when performing the Installation. For more information
please refer to the Progress Version 7 Installation Notes on
VMSINSTAL.
$ @sys$update:vmsinstal
5. If you restored the product savesets due to a problem with tape
drive incompatibility and need to move these product savesets to
another DEC system, you can use ftp to transfer them. Remember to
use binary mode to transfer the files between DEC systems. The
following gives a brief example of the steps. Please refer to
your vendors ftp utility for additional information.
$ set def dua0:[userdisk.test_install]
$ ftp <hostname>
> cd <directory-name>
where <directory-name> is the directory on the remote system that you
are transferring the files to.
> binary
> put progressc073c.a
> put progressc073c.b
> close
> quit
6. Now you have the Product saveset files on the DEC system that
you are installing to. You can now install the products directly
from disk. Again, remember to replace the tape drive source
with the full directory path of where the product savesets are
located. Please refer to the Progress Version 7 Installation Notes
for additional information on running VMSINSTAL.
$ @sys$update:vmsinstal
lmc
02/11/97
References: Progress Version 7 Installation Notes - VMS
VMS System Manager's Manual
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 16661