[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

[Antonio Duran]

On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 3:14:14 AM UTC+1, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/20/2018 2:26 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > On 2018-12-20 18:15:58 +0000, Ben Lambert said:
> >
> >> Not that I'm one to normally defend HPE given the massacre that has
> >> recently occurred with regard to VMS info on their website, but
> >> there's some confusion going on here.  The files on the HPE site are
> >> ok; they have been provided in ZIP format for quite a while now.
> >>
> >> The issue is that Antonio was unzipping them on a Rasperry Pi (not on
> >> the virtual VAX) and then creating an ISO-9660 of the extracted files
> >> to mount on the VAX via a virtual CD-ROM drive.  This is what is
> >> truncating the filenames, and losing the file attributes.
> >
> > Yeah, that won't work.
> >
> > There are more than a few other folks that have learned that BACKUP has
> > some severe and long-standing issues with its RMS metadata expectations,
> > and RMS metadata routinely gets stripped on other platforms.  BACKUP
> > /REPAIR is helpful for the OpenVMS releases recent enough to have that
> > and the [000TOOLS]RESET_BACKUP_SAVESET_ATTRIBUTES.COM on the Freeware
> > and other similar metadata-related tools and commands are how we've all
> > dealt with this issue.  And this will continue to trip new users.  This
> > rather than, you know, fixing BACKUP.
> >
> > On the plus side, a wholesale replacement is probably a better path now
> > rather than further work on BACKUP, so there's that.
> >
> > And ISO-9660 support on OpenVMS is ISO-9660:1988, and lacks more recent
> > extensions and amendments; without support for the stuff that most folks
> > use and expect. Joliet, Rock Ridge, HFS and UDF are not supported by
> > OpenVMS.
> >
> >
> 
> I got no problem with BACKUP
> 
> Yes, it takes a bit of knowledge, but I have no problem with file 
> characteristics
> 
> If what is inside that ZIP file is an ISO image, then using LD to just 
> mount it is rather simple.
> 
> Maybe I'm just old school, but, I don't have a problem with needing a 
> bit of knowledge to work with a server OS.
> 
> And yes, always room for improvement.
> 
> Note to Antonio, don't put anything in the MFD, dev:[0,0]
> 
> Create a directory or sub-directory for such stuff
> 
> Don't mix other files with the OS files.
> 
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Thanks to everybody. Finally I managed to install DECSet components. I unzipped the package in OpenVMS and then everything went smooth.

Best regards,

Antonio.