On 2/1/2018 12:55 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote:
I'm getting an Alphaserver 1000a and wanted to install VMS 8.4 -
hobbyist license from CD.
So, I went to the folder on my PC where I have the 8.4 hobbyist
distribution. There are 3 ISO files; ALPHA084, ALPHA084LP1 and
ALPHA084LP2.
I thought I would burn these to CD and up and away. However, Windows
7 balks and says, 'The selected disc image file isn't valid'.
Is it Windows 7 or is there something I'm missing? Is the CD on the
Alphaserver 2048 byte block size or 512?
Doug
Progress: I was able to burn the hobbyist Alpha OpenVMS ISO images to CD
using linux.
Debian Liunx - you have to install cdrskin and the command I used was $
cdrskin --devices -data ALPHA084.ISO
This is on a DELL desktop with one CD/DVD drive, instead of --devices I
could have used dev=/dev/sr0.
I was able to mount and explore these CD's on the Alphaserver 1000a.
Doug
