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

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:13:20 +0200, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> On my DS25, I simply copied the "ISO" as supplied by HP to a spare SCSI
> disk (in the 6-disk cage in the DS25) and booted from that.
> 
> I was a simple :
> 
> $ mount/for <device>
> $ copy ALPHA084.ISO <device>
> 
> and then shutdown and >>> boot <device> and from that run the upgrade as
> usual.
> 
> Note also that the two LP ISO's can simply be CONNECT'ed by LD and then
> mounted. No need for any CD's at all.
> 
> And since the ISO's was FTPed directly to the DS25, this was a VMS-only
> solution with no other platform involved.
> 

That unfortunately depends on you having the network already running on 
your DS25 so that you can download the files directly onto a VMS system.

With a physical box starting from scratch you have no networking, so need 
a means of reading the CD images from elsewhere.
-- 
Paul Sture