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Upgrading the OpenVMS VAX Operating System

7.6 Upgrade Phase 4

For more information on booting your system, refer to the upgrade and

installation supplement for your VAX computer.

When the system reboots, the procedure displays a message similar to the

following:

OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V7.3 Major version id = 1 Minor version id = 0

After the system reboots, the procedure continues with upgrade Phase 5. Do not

move the system disk to a different drive. The system disk must remain in the

same drive for the procedure to continue with Phase 5.

7.7 Upgrade Phase 5

At the beginning of Phase 5, the procedure displays a message similar to the

following:

Continuing with OpenVMS VAX V7.3 Upgrade Procedure.

Upgrade Phase 5 13-NOV-2000 11:36:36.95

During Phase 5, the upgrade procedure does the following:

1. Deletes the temporary [SYSF] directory tree.

2. Cleans up ﬁles used only during the upgrade procedure.

3. Converts all VAXVMSSYS.PAR parameter ﬁles found in system roots to

Version 7.3 format.

4. Registers the OpenVMS VAX Version 7.3 operating system in the

POLYCENTER Software Installation product database.

5. Installs DECnet Phase IV for OpenVMS VAX Version 7.3 if you answered

Yes earlier in the procedure when asked whether you wanted to install the

DECnet Phase IV for OpenVMS VAX product.

6. Displays messages listing tasks that you can perform after the upgrade

procedure is completed. These tasks are described in Chapter 8.

7.8 Upgrade Phase 6

At the beginning of Phase 6, the procedure displays a message similar to the

following:

Continuing with OpenVMS VAX V7.3 Upgrade Procedure.

Upgrade Phase 6 13-NOV-2000 11:38:46.83

Configuring all devices on the system ...

7.8.1 Restoring System Files

The procedure restores SYS$SPECIFIC and SYS$COMMON versions of the

following system ﬁles that were renamed with .COM_OLD_SPECIFIC and .DAT_

OLD_SPECIFIC extensions during Phase 1:

SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM

SYCONFIG.COM

SYPAGSWPFILES.COM

SYSECURITY.COM

SYSHUTDWN.COM

SYLOGIN.COM

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