[Info-vax] Burning cd for use in OpenVMS

[David Wade]

On 08/04/2019 11:36, 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
> 
Marco,
  For future reference, It depends on which version of VMS. On later 
versions normal ISO CDs which is what Linux and Windows/DOS make can be 
read. I usually use "/over=id" to override the volume name check. May 
also need "/foreign"

MOUNT /OVER=IDENT Dnn:

then

DIR Dnn:[000000]

should show the file names. You can then copy it to the hard drive, set 
the attributes so its a stream file...

SET FILE/ATTRIBUTE=(RFM=STM) VMSLICENCES.COM

and execute it...

Dave