[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

[John E. Malmberg]

On 12/19/2018 2:05 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.)

No ISO-9660 involved on the hobbyist FTP site except for the bootable 
dual format IA64 system install disk you are ignoring.

The DECSet kit on at least one platform was simply zipped up wrong, and 
needs to have the saveset manually fixed on the destination.

Someone interested in DECSet would probably want the MMK from the github 
site.  All other sites are obsolete.

Regards,
-John