[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[David Wade]

On 27/01/2019 17:25, David Wade wrote:
> 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

Bill,

  By the way I went round exactly the same loops a while ago. Its really 
off that you have to use freeware software just to copy a disk image to 
a disk.,..

Dave