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