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

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:58:04 -0700, BillPedersen wrote:

> On Saturday, April 7, 2012 8:55:33 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:16:42 -0700, BillPedersen wrote:
>> 
>> > It does appear that the ISO file type is causing the issue to the
>> > Windows based applications.
>> 
>> Try renaming it to something else?
>> 
>> .BIN is suggested as a file association for a binary file for ImgBurn
>> (off by default in the ImgBurn settings):
>> 
>> http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=6232&#entry125887
>> 
>> and there are tons more settings available on that page.
>> 
>> All this could of course be down to hardware.  I have come across
>> discussions where older disc drives can't read certain brands of burned
>> CDs, if any at all.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Paul Sture
> 
> Paul, tried .BIN (after having to down load a "optional" driver) and no
> luck on this specific image.  It seems that ImgBurn does not like this
> specific CD image and thinks .BIN has some specific format.  So unless
> there is something to bypass this for this particular image it does not
> seem like it is happy with it.  I do not know if UDI (Univeral Disk
> Image) will do the trick - have not yet checked)...
> 
> Some of these programs try to be too smart for their own good.
> 

True.  I've used ImgBurn for a variety of formats, but at the end of the 
day, they have fallen into the "usual suspects" category of stuff you 
might want to boot on a PC.

I'd be intrigued to find out what happens if you try using ImgBurn to 
create an image copy on disk from the original CD.  I'm afraid I don't 
have a real VAX here to help testing.


-- 
Paul Sture