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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2012-04-09 08:27:
> 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.

As a wrote in another post more or less at the same time:

 > This doesn't work for a new/clean install, of course.

Yes, I should have put that disclaimer in the post you quoted also,
of course... :-)

Anyway, I have not *booted* the CD I burned on my Win7 laptop,
but it mounts cleanly and I can see/list/dir everything on it.

$ moun/ove=ide dqa0
%MOUNT-I-WRITELOCK, volume is write locked
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, ALPHA084 mounted on _$1$DQA0: (myhost)
$


Jan-Erik.