[Info-vax] LDDriver, Tools to create ISO

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:31:30 UTC, "Stanley F. Quayle" 
<infovax at stanq.com> wrote:

> On 17 Mar 2009 at 19:48, Michael Unger wrote:
> > There is a utility called "MkImage" [1] by SoftResInt, err, Stromasys,
> > that copies an ODS-2 (can't comment an ODS-5 devices) CD to an image
> > file which worked quite well with SimH and PersonalAlpha on a Windows XP
> > system -- perhaps that image file is transferrable to VMS and accepted
> > by LDDriver too.
> 
> The image created is interchangeable with CHARON-VAX/CHARON-AXP (of which PersonalAlpha 
> is a subset), SimH, LD driver, and even the Alpha-only VD driver.  The image can be 
> burned to a CD or DVD.
> 
> MKIMAGE was written in MACRO long ago, before there were ODS-5 volumes.  You will 
> probably get something, but expect any ODS-5 files to have their ODS-2 compatibility 
> (mangled) names.

I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. MKIMAGE shouldn't need to know 
anything about ODS-2 - it simply needs to copy the sectors from the CD 
to a file.

I wrote a similar program (for a completely different operating system) 
and I simply read the CD sectors 'raw' and wrote them to a file. I did 
this on a VMS 7.3-2 distribution CD, and it worked fine on SIMH. I also 
burned another CD from that image, and that CD worked fine on a real 
VAX.

-- 
Bob Eager