[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Jan 27 17:44:02 EST 2019


David Wade  <g4ugm at dave.invalid> wrote:
>On 27/01/2019 18:58, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 1/27/19 12:25 PM, David Wade wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>> 
>> Okay, I am going to say it for the FOURTH time now.  It doesn't matter, it's
>> just bits.
>
>  it does matter. You can't mount the .iso or the CD you have created as 
>a drive on  Windows or Linux so it will look like a coaster,

Right.

>  Tools that check the file contains an ISO 9660 image will simply not 
>burn the file.

Right.  That's why you don't USE one of those tools, you use a tool
which does not enforce that.  As detailed above.

>  On Windows there are no native tools to handle this....

So don't use Windows.
--scott
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