[Info-vax] Issues with burning latest Hobbyist VAX/VMS ISO to CD?

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] so we can help future Hobbyists.

   If you really want to help future Hobbyists, then you
might stop referring to an optical disc image file as an
"ISO".  I claim that ISO is a standards organization:
      http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm
not an optical disc file system format, let alone a generic
optical disc image file format.

   A VMS installation disc tends to contain an ODS2 file
system, not an ISO-9660 file system, so software which
expects to deal exclusively with an ISO-9660 file system may
not be satisfied with a disc image of a VMS installation
disc.  Of course from a description as vague as the one you
provided, it's hard to tell which program, exactly, was used
how, exactly, or what, exactly, happened when it was.

> [...] what did you use?

   I typically make my discs on a VMS system using
cdrtools/cdrecord, or on a Mac, using Disk Utility, but those
methods may not be readily available to a typical Windows
user.  My experience with optical disk creation on Windows is
approximately nil, but in any program there, I'd look for a
not-too-smart-for-its-own-good mode, which can write an image
file to a disc without caring what's in it (and, especially,
without fiddling with the bits on their way to the disc).