This chapter explains how to install the OpenVMS Alpha operating
system. It includes sample scripts and messages you might see during
an installation and explains how to respond to the prompts.
This chapter describes the following installation tasks:
Responding to prompts during the installation
Booting from the operating system CD-ROM
Installing OpenVMS using
option 1 of the CD-ROM main menu
Creating the system disk
Providing information such
as SYSTEM account password, OpenVMS Cluster and Galaxy intentions,
and the time zone for your system
Registering licenses
Installing windowing and
networking products
Completing the installation
Installing layered products
Booting the new system disk
Joining an OpenVMS Cluster (optional)
Running AUTOGEN
Logging in to the SYSTEM account
Before you install the operating system, ensure that
the correct version of console firmware is running on your computer,
as described in
Firmware Revision Checking.
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