[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[David Wade]

On 27/01/2019 17:51, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/27/19 12:25 PM, 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
> 
> You would never figure that out from the documentation.  :-)
> 
>>
>> 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
> 
> And now we are back to the original problem.  It's not a .iso file.
> So what would it do?  Make another coaster?

According to link above it writes a VMS CD. This will look like a 
coaster on a windows, linux or MAC OS box (in fact anything other than 
VMS or perhaps one of the PDP-11 OS's) but if its meant to be bootable
you should be able to stick it in a VAX box and boot it.

Of course you also need CD or DVD drive that has a selectable sector 
size, and the link should be I think set to 512. Note that this is yet 
another fiddle. The sectors on all data CDs are the same size. The drive 
re-packs them s required...

> 
> bill

Dave