You can avoid having to stop and restart VMSINSTAL by following the directions in this section before you run VMSINSTAL. The time required for installing gateway software is approximately five minutes.
8.3.1 Disk Space
Installing gateway software requires a certain amount of free storage space during the installation. Table
Table 8–1 Disk Space Requirements
| Blocks During | Blocks After |
| Installation | Installation |
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Gateway | 23,304 | 6,500 |
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To determine the number of free disk blocks on the current system disk, enter the following command at the DCL prompt:
$ SHOW DEVICE SYS$SYSDEVICE
In the output column under the heading Free Blocks is the number of
8.3.2 Privileges and Authorization
To install gateway software, you must be logged in to an account with the following privileges:
NETMBX
SETPRV
TMPMBX
The SYSTEM account has all the privileges you require for the installation.
VMSINSTAL turns off the BYPASS privilege at the start of the installation and sets whatever privileges it needs during the installation.
At the end of the installation procedure, if the gateway system components were installed, the gateway process on OpenVMS is started using the same user name that you use to install the product. Compaq recommends that you run the gateway under the user name SYSTEM or another user name with a [1,4] UIC.
