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Customizing the Operating System
5.2 Modifying Site-Specific Startup Command Procedures
5.2.7.5 Installing Known Images
You can install commonly used programs as known images to reduce the I/O
overhead in activating those images and to assign attributes or privileges to the
images. Use the Install utility (INSTALL) to install known images, which you
must reinstall each time the system boots.
STARTUP.COM includes a series of INSTALL commands that install certain
system programs as known images. You should include any site-specific INSTALL
commands in SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to install images each time the system
boots.
For information about installing known images, see Section 17.9.
Example
The following example shows a command sequence you might include in
SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM for installing additional known images:
$ INSTALL
ADD/OPEN/SHARED/HEADER_RESIDENT BASIC
ADD/OPEN/SHARED/HEADER_RESIDENT FORTRAN
EXIT
5.2.7.6 Installing Resident Images (Alpha Only)
Resident images must be installed each time the system boots. You can add
commands to SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to automatically perform this task.
Section 17.9.6 explains how you can use the Install utility (INSTALL) to install
resident images on Alpha systems.
5.2.7.7 Setting Up the OpenVMS InfoServer Client Software
If you use the InfoServer system, you will probably perform some setup tasks in
SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. For example, you can add commands to SYSTARTUP_
VMS.COM to:
• Start the InfoServer Client for OpenVMS software
• Make remote compact discs available on your system each time the system
boots
Chapter 25 explains the InfoServer system and its uses.
5.2.7.8 Running the System Dump Analyzer
You run the System Dump Analyzer utility (SDA) each time the system boots
to analyze the system crash dump in case the system failed the last time it was
running. You can do this by adding command lines to SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM.
For details, see Section 16.11 and the OpenVMS VAX System Dump Analyzer
Utility Manual and the OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Analyzer Utility Manual.
Caution
If you use the page file for the crash dump file, you must enter the SDA
command COPY when the system reboots, to copy the dump from the
page file to another file suitable for analysis.
If you fail to perform the copy operation, pages used to save the crash
dump information are not released for paging, and your system might
hang because it has insufficient paging space. For more information, see
Section 16.13.
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