BARBE@sdr.slb.COM ("Claude Barbe - SDR - 431 5524", 203) (02/10/88)
After getting a failure message at the very end of the VMS 4.7 update (which is always frustrating after you lied to the question "Are you satisfied with the backup of your system disk"...) I advise everyone to AVOID putting "." in the system disk label, as in: $ SHOW DEVICE SYS$SYSDEVICE Device Device Error Volume Free Name Status Count Label Blocks NODE$DUA0: Mounted 0 MACHIN4.6 31684 = If this is the case, then use $ SET VOLUME whatever /LABEL=VMS ! or some string that does not contain any file specification separating character. What happens, is during one of the final automatic reboots, VMS names the system drive "label$device:" which in the case of ANY4.6$DUA0: leads to invalid file specifications when RMS parses something like ANY4.6$DUA0:[SYS0.] and the update fails. I guess the label is used at that time because SCSSYSID is blank during the VMS update. Claude Barbe - Schlumberger-Doll Research - Ridgefield, CT