[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[gregor.oelze]

On 26 Feb., 10:57, bur... at Encompasserve.org (Graham Burley) wrote:
> In article <589e0074-3079-4585-a121-5b0ea27e5... at u12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze" <gregor.oe... at gmail.com> writes:
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> >Thats why i was hoping to "shortcut" the problem with mounting the
> >dsk(dd-image) and extract the changed files and transfer them via
> >ftp client on the ubuntu host.
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> Transfer them to another VMS system running on what? SIMH or real
> hardware? It makes a differece. Both are possible using the SIMH
> hosted VMS system that you have running using the dd image, and
> IMHO far easier than putzing around with ODS-2 reader software,
> and more likely to get the files intact and with correct attributes
> to the target system.
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> If your target is on SIMH then create a small disk image, attach it
> in SIMH, INIT & MOUNT it in VMS, copy your files to it, and then
> transfer that disk image to the target system. This method will
> also work when transferring to a VMS system on real hardware which
> has LD (logical disk driver) installed which you can use to mount
> the SIMH disk image.
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> If your target is on real hardware without LD then it's more fiddly
> but possible.

Unfortunately, the other host we would like to send files to - is not
a simh emulated host. It is a genrad testing appliance, also running
a vms-like or vms system (we don't really know what is running on
that machine other than beeing able to establish a ftp connection to
that machine and transfer files via the ubuntu host.