[Info-vax] Burning cd for use in OpenVMS

[Dave Froble]

On 4/8/2019 6:36 AM, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> 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
>

What type of optical drive do you have?  The older ones don't like newer 
media.

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