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

[Hans Vlems]

On Aug 5, 5:21 pm, "Terry Aardema" <taard... at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:09:46 -0600, Sum1 <n... 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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You can even copy an LD containerfile to a PC and burn the image with
Nero. The cd may be read on a VMS system.
Hans