cannot boot AlphaServer2000 Model 5/300 OS - OpenVMS ver 7.1

[Daniel Fernandez Illan]

Hi
To recover automayic startup use (after reboot)
mc sysgen
USE CURRENT
SET/STARTUP SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM
WRITE CURRENT
EXIT

Saludos.
Daniel.

[Robert_Boyd]

Syed,

With your system up and running again, you might want to install the FREEWARE utility DFU V2.7A and use the command

$ DFU SEARCH SYS$SYSDEVICE:/SIZE=MIN=10000

to find all of the files that are of a significant size on your system disk.

Of course, this doesn't find the files where you may have accumulated a large number of small files. There are ways to find those too.

I don't know if DFU will do something like this, but I like the command:

$ DIRECTORY SYS$SYSDEVICE:[*...]*.*;-100

This will find all files that have at least 100 versions. Or you could use 50 as a starting point.

Robert

[Uwe Zessin]

Even without DFU:

$ set default sys$sysdevice:[000000]
$ directory /size=all /select=size=minimum=10000 -
sys$sysdevice:[000000...] -
/exclude= [sys*.syscommon...]*.*;*

(It's typed from memory/untested)

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

I justed tested a minimal boot with a full system disk.

Indeed there are messages about disk full but I was able to login and delete the file.

Your mail problem has something to do with a bad boot setup : something that is started in an incorrect place.

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Also add to Uwe's procedure :

$ set default sys$sysdevice:[000000]
$ directory /size=all sys$sysdevice:[000000...]*.*;-100

Wim