[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/26/19 5:44 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> "Those are the images I am not  having fun with.  Turns out that none of 
> the CD Burning software I have tried has actually burned the image into  
> a CD/R.  It appears it just copies the file to a directory  it creates 
> on the CD/R.  That was with three different applications on Ubuntu.  I 
> just tried on a PC that has the capability built in to Windows 7 and it 
> says the image isn't an image at all. "   No commands used, ancient 
> Windows versions, no tool names, no details?  Not much to go on.  
> Without knowing what you've specifically tried...
> 
> Ubuntu disk image burning instructions seem to be what would be required 
> here, though there's no Ubuntu handy—and the local Kali systems are 
> otherwise occupied.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

Not doing this from the command line.  I have three GUI based apps
and they all do it wrong.  Apparently they all see something wrong
with the images and refuse to just burn the data to a CD/R.

> 
> Back when I was dealing with cdrecord on macOS (the device path will 
> vary), here's a command that was used to burn disk images:
> sudo /opt/local/bin/cdrecord dev=IODVDServices  ~/Downloads/{disk image 
> name}.iso

But these images are not .iso.  And just renaming them as one site
recommended doesn't help.

> 
> On recent OpenVMS, the CREATE/RECORDABLE_MEDIA command should work with 
> these images, as should the cdrecord tool.

Sadly, I do not have a CD Writer that will work on my VAX.

> 
> Back a dozen years or so ago and when I was more commonly using 
> Microsoft Windows, CDburnerXP was commonly used for generating optical 
> media containing OpenVMS-related disk images.
> 
> Using tools that assume or use or that probe for ISO-9660 or other 
> volume formats or that expect to be copying files and/or generating a 
> specific volume format on the target volume will fail here.
> 
> Or use a current OpenVMS I64 or OpenVMS Alpha system and host-based 
> InfoServer.

I have my VAXes.  I have to live with that.

bill