[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Jan 27 09:17:18 EST 2019


Bob Wilson  <bwandmw at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Windows 7 right clicking  on a .ISO file gives the option to "Burn disc =
>image", which doesn't work with non-ISO-9660 .ISO files...for a VMS/ODS .IS=
>O file it throws a "The selected disk image isn't valid" error. Anecdotally=
> I'd say it's trying to verify that the .ISO file contains a ISO-9660 volum=
>e (to verify I downloaded  a Ubuntu .ISO distribution to my Windows 7 syste=
>m and was able to right-click & "Burn disc image" successfully).

Yes, this is documented.  You can only burn an ISO, FAT, or NT filesystem
this way.  Windows makes assumptions about what you would want to do, because 
that's how Windows is.  
--scott

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