[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Dave Froble]

On 1/27/2019 12:51 PM, 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?
>
> bill

So, what, you got me on your "killfile" list?

I mentioned "FreeISOBurner", which appears to write data to a device, 
without trying to second-guess me, at least as far as I can tell.  It's 
a program, one executable file, so no installation of some app.

I have an old MSDN disk with multiple files, each a disk image, and 
flaky reader was having some issues.  I pulled the file I wanted to 
disk, then used above utilty to write to CD-RW media.  It just worked. 
I now have a bootable WEENDOZE XP CD/DVD.

I mentioned CD-RW media, no more coasters.

Or, just keep spinning your wheels ....

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