[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[David Wade]

On 27/01/2019 16:55, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/27/19 11:03 AM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>>   > Apparently there is because they get rejected for not being
>>   > recognizable.  If all they are just a stream of bits, what
>>   > is it trying to recognize?.
>>
>> I'd guess they're Files-11 filesystems, not ISO9660 filesystems,
>> so they don't look like something the nannyware expects, and it
>> tries to "help".
>>
>> Have you tried the command line tools cdrecord or wodim?
> 
> cdrecord just points to wodim and wodim has 20 page long man
> page that makes little if any sense.  But then, that's why
> they made GUI apps.  No one can understand this stuff and it
> will make more coasters than the GUI programs.

According to

http://avitech.com.au/?p=605

all you need is a simple command

wodim dev=/dev/sr0 vms061-1.iso

where the "dev" points to your CD writer and the ".iso" file is the 
image to be written

> 
> The sad news is while trying to access the directory where I
> have all the freeware the system locked up.  I ended out doing
> a shutdown from a remote terminal.  After rebooting and remounting
> the disk with the freeware on it it is unreadable.  Complained
> about not being properly dismounted and then the rebuild failed.
> Disk now appears to contain nothing but the [000000] directory.
> Sigh....
> 
> Beginning to see why I gave up on this the last time.
> 
> bill

Dave