Installation manual

spin up, spin down
To spin up means to bring a disk drive up to operating speed; to spin down means
to bring it gradually to a stop.
standalone BACKUP
A subset of the BACKUP utility that is booted into main memory instead of
running under the control of the OpenVMS operating system. Standalone
BACKUP is used to back up and restore the system disk and to install OpenVMS
operating system software.
standalone system
A computer system consisting of just one computer.
system disk
The disk that contains or will contain the OpenVMS operating system. An
OpenVMS system disk is set up so that most of the OpenVMS files can be shared
by several VAX computers. In addition, each computer has its own directory on
the system disk that contains its page, swap, and dump files.
target drive
The drive that holds the system disk during an upgrade or installation, or the
drive you designate when backing up the system disk.
transaction log
A log used by DECdtm services to record information about transactions. The
Log Manager Control Program (LMCP) is used to create a transaction log.
UETP (User Environment Test Package)
A software package that tests all the standard peripheral devices on your system,
various commands and operating system functions, the system’s multiuser
capability, DECnet software, and the cluster environment.
VMSTAILOR
A software program that lets you add or remove optional OpenVMS files from
your system disk.
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