[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/26/19 9:10 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
> So, do we have any InfoServer experts here?  I have a problem.
> I finally got the chance to work on the InfoServer I have had
> for at least a decade and never got to do anything with.  The
> hard disk is blank, I assume wiped by the previous owner before
> giving it away.  I have all the disk images from the Freeware
> 5.0 CD.  I think I have identified them all.  Two should be
> software loads and the others are licenses for features. Now,
> here's the problem.  None of them will boot.  They are all
> Files-11 format and I assume you just boot them in the CDROM
> and they will have install scripts that run automatically.
> But, no luck.  Anybody have any suggestions?
> 

Another question regarding this problem.  The files are described
as: "Files-11 On-Disk Structure (ODS-2); VAX/VMS or OpenVMS file
system; volume label is 'IS_V35      '".  Would it be possible
using my VMS system to copy these files to a hard disk in such
a manner as to make the hard disk a bootable device that I could
then move to the Infoserver?  I suspect that the burning process
is not accurately putting the images on the CD/R.  I looked at
one of them on another machine and there is data at the beginning
of the disk that definitely wasn't part of the image. If this is
doable, can anyone tell me what the needed commands would be?

bill