9 Apr
2001
9 Apr
'01
9:02 a.m.
I would like to put together a CD that has all of the
languages on it and
I'm wondering sort of how to go about that. If I 'INIT' a disk and stage
the CD I want to create, then I can used backup to create a
/FOREIGN/PHYSICAL copy of it in a file I think, then if I burn that on to a
CD will it still mount? Curious minds want to know.
You need to grab the LD driver off the Freeware CD[1]. With it you can
create a logical disk, and put whatever you want on the Logical disk. You
can then either burn it to CD-R with CDRECORD, or you can FTP the disk
image over to another machine with a CD-R drive attached and put it on CD-R.
Alternativelly, put a 500MB SCSI drive on your VAX, put the files on it.
Then move the disk over to a UNIX box and dd it to an image file and burn
to CD-R. Actually you should be able to make the image this way on your
VMS box, if you've enough HD space, as you should be able to mount the disk
foreign and then copy it to a image file.
On a related note, if you've got two VMS systems, and you want to upgrade
one of them, but don't have a CD-ROM for it (say it's a MicroVAX III), you
can backup the install CD-ROM, copy it via DECnet to the target system, and
restore the CD-ROM to a second Hard Drive. Boot off the Hard Drive, and
install on the target Hard Drive.
Zane
[1] http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/freeware/index.html
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