Hi
Its down load image to a PC then burn CD ROM. Then boot CD on VAX.
My CDROM burner may not know about ODS-2/-5 I'll check
Thanks
Rod
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[mailto:cctech-bounces at
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Sent: 13 June 2007 01:18
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Subject: Re: Boot CD
In Linux land you can download an ISO image and
burn a boot cd
that will install a system. Does anybody know if something similar is
possible with VMS?
The short answer is yes.
The longer answer is that an ISO image isn't really the right term as it
is an ODS-2 or ODS-5 format disk, but most people will understand what
you're asking. I recently created a logical disk on my VMS system,
copied data to it, and then FTP'd it to my Mac where I burned it to CD
and was able to access it on my VMS box.
I'm not sure if you're asking about being able to burn CD's on VMS, but
that is also possible, at least on Alpha and Itanium, and I believe that
as of
8.3 it is part of the OS. I've not done this, as it would be more
trouble to set this up than to simply FTP the file to my Mac. :^)
Zane