[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Bill
> Gunshannon via Info-vax
> Sent: January 27, 2019 12:51 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] InfoServer 150
> 
> 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?
> 
> bill
>

Not sure if this was discussed in this thread, or if applicable, but as a reminder:

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Eberhard is the author and a long time c.o.v. contributor.


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com