[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[David Wade]

On 26/01/2019 23:56, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.
> 

There is probably nothing wrong with the images...

>>
>> 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.

They are not ISO because the originals are not ISO

> 
>>
>> 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.

CDBurnerXP still works on Windows/10. Get the "without instal core" 
version from here:-

https://cdburnerxp.se/download?more-options

>>
>> 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
> 

Dave