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From: CLAYTON@XRT.UPENN.EDU ("Clayton, Paul D.")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Creating a Bootable System on Secondary Drive
Message-ID: <8805191332.AA13542@linc.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 13:33:00 GMT
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Chinson Yi has asked the following question recently:

	We are running VMS 4.4 on uVAX II with 2 RA81s, and I am
	thinking of building a bootable area on 2nd RA81.  Does anyone
	have easy of doing this except rebuilding the system on it,
	and restoring the data onto it.

I had to do a similar thing in the past and accomplished it in the following
manner.

Use the BACKUP command and copy the ENTIRE SYS* directory tree from one disk
to the other. If you have a cluster common disk, you might be better off copying
everything and /EXCLUDING= the directories that do not go over. The last step
was to run WRITEBOOT program and use the defaults, except for the disk unit 
to Uuse.

This gave me a bootable disk, on something other then the normal system disk.

Hope this helps. :-)

Paul D. Clayton 
Address - CLAYTON%XRT@CIS.UPENN.EDU