ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward) (05/20/88)
As it turns out, only one line of the KITINSTAL.COM file has to be commented out to avoid the RD54 test/rejection business. In spite of being repititous and emphatic in my posting of this problem (that it is only in standard VMS distributions, not MicroVMS) I got replies telling me I was nuts, because MicroVMS worked okay. To the lone sole who pointed out the single line in the standard VMS distribution, thanks. Standard VMS does now check for an RD54 (presumably >= RD54) system disk and when MicroVMS and standard VMS are merged (VMS5.0) this might affect MicroVMS users radically. You can search through KITINSTAL.COM and hopefully comment out or change something to allow use with RD53's or whatever RD disk you are using. If you are using an RA or RA clone, this will not affect you. It also remains to be seen whether DEC will carry this over from the standard VMS distribution to the new merged distribution. I haven't perused KITINSTAL.COM for the RD54 test because I now have RD54,s or RA clones in use, so for me it is moot.