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Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

483.0. "BL8 Installation/Disk Space" by 5680::BERUBE () Mon Jun 08 1987 21:01

    
    I'm having problems trying to install BL8 on my system.  I only have
    about 13000 free blocks of space on my system disk.  I can install the
    vanilla BL8 easily, but I don't have any room left over for the LN03
    fonts.  I thought about installing BL8 on DUA1 which has about 60,000
    free blocks, but I'm not sure that will work either. VMSINSTAL first
    copies savesets to a subdirectory of SYS$UPDATE before moving them to
    their target directories.  Exactly how much space will I need on my
    system disk DURING the installation of the LN03 fonts?
    
    Chris
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483.1you might make it.CLOSET::KOHLBRENNERTue Jun 09 1987 13:3528
    YOu might make it with 13000 blocks.  The LN03 fonts take about
    12,300 blocks, according to the Installation Guide for the LN03
    fonts.
    
    You are right that they first have to get "restored" from the
    backup saveset into a working directory, then they get copied
    to the target disk, one by one, with a delete from the working
    directory and a purge of the target directory.
    
    Since you would be using DUA1 as the target, the space on DUA0
    should not be much over the 12300 that is spec'd in the Install
    Guide.  
    
    When you are going to the system disk, the space required
    is a little more, because at some point the file actually exists
    in two places (potentially).  I saw one version of VMSINSTAL
    that does not do a copy, but does a rename when the target is
    the same structure as the working directory.  But VMSINSTAL keeps
    changing from one release of VMS to the next, so I would hate to
    count on it to always do the rename.  And it can't do the rename
    unless you tell it to purge old versions. (I can't imagine why 
    you wouldn't tell it to purge, but that IS an option...)
    
    So with 13000 blocks on your system disk, you should have enough
    to do the installation to an alternate disk.
    
    bill
483.2... by the skin of my teeth...5680::BERUBEThu Jun 11 1987 18:425
    
    I made it by about 1000 blocks.
    
    Thanks,
    Chris