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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

vmsmangler at earthlink.net <vmsmangler at earthlink.net> wrote:

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>> I have a report from a hobbyist which suggests he gets a 
> "the selected disk file isn't valid" error from just about 
> any method he has tried to burn the CD with. 

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> I ftp'd the ISO files from HP for the Alpha VMS V8.4 kit to my Apple
> iMac G5 in binary mode and then burned the 3 ISO images to 3 separate
> CDs with no problem.
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> All 3 of course are ODS-2 format.

Note that ISO9660 is a specific file system format, and not a 
generic term for a file to be burned to CD. Many, but not all,
programs that burn CDs from an image won't check to see if it is
actually an ISO9660 file system. If it is ODS-2 then it is not
ISO9660 format!


-- glen