[Info-vax] Disk image viewable in Windows/Linux

[Terry Aardema]

On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:09:46 -0600, Sum1 <not at here.com> wrote:

> I want to take a whole ODS2 and/or 5 disk and encapsulate it into a  
> container file; LD seems to do that, I am unsure if the container file  
> used by PersonalAlpha does that *without* adding its own meta-structures.
>
> Why do I want this?  As I have said several times, I *don't* want to  
> mount the container on Linux or Windows to read the files and their  
> contents in a record-oriented sense;  I want to be able to examine the  
> binary disk structure, the location and contents of the meta-data, the  
> location and contents of the files/directories/other stuff.
>
> It appears that LD will let me do this as I can FTP the container to  
> wherever I want, I can then also compare an identically-built  
> PersonalAlpha container file and see what (if any) differences exist.

Create a LD disk under VMS, INITilize it, copy some files in, dismount it,  
(binary) "copy" it to the PC running PersonalAlpha, add it as a "disk" to  
the PersonalAlpha config, fire up PersonalAlpha, mount the "disk" and away  
you go ...

Just for grins, shut down your PersonalAlpha, (binary) copy a "disk" to a  
VMS machine, and use LD to mount it up ...

Been there, done that; there is *no* metadata added to the PersonalAlpha  
container file.

Terry Aardema

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