Boot CD - The last LAP

Hi Yes I got past that afer a bit of trying. I have both Ricoh and ASUS DVD and CD R/RW Drives I had to change the extension from .img to .nrg as raw data or not Nero would not look at either of my drives as .img is not supported. It asks about block sizes around 2k. VMS CD are 512. My first attempt did not boot. I'll try again to-night Rod -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini Sent: 14 June 2007 08:41 To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Boot CD - The last LAP Rod Smallwood wrote: I'm sure I used Nero when I did this. I'm also sure that if ImgBurn ("Image Burn") cannot do it then it should be renamed :-) I think the sequence with Nero is something like: Start->Programs->wherever Nero Burning ROM lives Cancel the initial screen that helps you determine whether you are burning a CD or DVD or whatever Recorder->Burn Image Select "All Files" (make sure yours is called .img or .bin) On the "Foreign Image Settings" leave it as "Data Mode 1" and tick "Raw Data" Try a CD-RW until you find the right incantation. I would download one of the Freeware CDs from the HP VMS website and try that image, so at least you know you have a good ODS-2 image at the start. An RRD42 will not (IIRC) cope with a CD-RW ... so you may need to use the Yamaha to start with (assuming it will). Antonio