[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Wed Dec 19 15:05:01 EST 2018


On 2018-12-19 17:24:07 +0000, Antonio Duran said:

> Totally agree. I went through the whole process to get a legit hobbyist 
> license and I got it. Then, I received an E-mail from OpenVMS Customer 
> Lab <openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com> containing a link and a username and 
> password for downloading the OpenVMS software 
> (https://ftp.ext.hpe.com/hprc). I believed that it was a legitimate web 
> site but now I doubt it.
> Is that a rogue site?

If the HPE site is where you got it, then the folks that created that 
media are seemingly either unfamiliar with OpenVMS and its operations, 
or something in their tooling and testing went sideways.  If there was 
an ISO-9660 step involved somewhere and that truncated the filenames, I 
don't know why.  OpenVMS has very old and very limited support for 
ISO-9660, and OpenVMS doesn't use that format for its layered product 
distros.  (I'm here ignoring the use of dual-format ISO-9660 El Torito 
media on OpenVMS I64, as the ISO-9660 El Torito path is not the path 
that OpenVMS accesses and loads its layered product software 
distribution kits.)



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