[Info-vax] Burning cd for use in OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-04-08 kl. 12:36, skrev Marco Beishuizen:
> Hi,
> 
> I forgot to timely renew my hobbyist license, and now I'm unable to access 
> the machine by network (tcpip doesn't work anymore). OpenVMS doesn't seem 
> to able to access FAT formatted diskettes, so now I want to burn a cd with 
> the new license on FreeBSD. But how do I do that? I burned the license file 
> to a cd-rw but OpenVMS can't mount it (keeps asking for "Please mount 
> device _OVMS1$DKA500:". What kind of format is needed for OpenVMS in order 
> to mount and read a cdrom?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 

You don't have access to the console? Just cut-n-paste the TCPIP
license (and any other needed to get running system and a network
connection) and register/load it. Startup TCPIP and transfer the
rest of the licenses...