[Info-vax] VAXStation 4000/60 - some questions

[commodorejohn]

On Jan 31, 3:18 pm, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
wrote:
> Use the serial console line where you can.  Preferably from a decent
> terminal emulator, so you can cut-and-paste over the licenses, and can
> save the commands you've used and the errors and output generated, and
> such.
Well, the license I actually just copied over via CD-R. Of course,
this was the same CD the installation kit apparently didn't transfer
right from, but when I print the copy of the license on the hard disk
via TYPE, it seems to be alright - certainly it doesn't complain about
buffer sizes. I'll see whether it works to register it, though...

> If you have the OpenVMS VAX hobbyist disk image kit[1] then whatever
> tool you used to burn the disk may have failed.  It's common to see
> folks using Microsoft Windows tools to replicate the disks, and Windows
> tools[2] failing to record a block-oriented copy of the disk image.  If
> you're on Windows, then look for previous discussions here of
> <http://cdburnerxp.se/> CDburnerPro XP (just install the base tool; you
> don't need any anti-malware tools) orhttp://www.imgburn.com/> ImgBurn.
Well, the actual OpenVMS ISO burned without issue, hence the working
install. The problem disk is a collection of layered-product and
freeware installation kits I put together with InfraRecorder; I
thought I had the settings matched to what I read OpenVMS expects in a
CD (ISO-9660 Level 2 only, no Joliet filename extensions, no support
for deep directory hierarchies,) but I already had one issue with it
(it mangled the filenames on the installation kits so I had to copy
them to the hard drive and manually rename them before PCSI would
recognize them at all.) I'll give ImgBurn a shot and see whether that
works better.