DG/UX install media
alan at alanlee.org
alan at alanlee.org
Thu Oct 11 06:42:20 CDT 2018
I've tried loop mounting with no success. Is there a software tool
(Linux or Windows) that will burn a non-ISO image to a CD? Most
expect/assume ISO-9660.
I don't have a keyboard or proper SCSI cable yet for my Aviion, so I
can't try booting anything. I supposed I could just point a SCSI2SD
emulator at those files and see what happens.
Thanks,
-Alan
On 2018-10-11 06:25, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 11:33, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe they are just dumps? In whatever format DG/UX expects
>> There could be hints on the documentation ISO.
>> Unfortunately, the files on the documentation ISO is in "WorldView"
>> format (aka "printerleaf") and a converter (pl2ps) can't be easily
>> found.
>> But - iview for Windows (NT) is on the ISO, maybe it will run under
>> WINE?
>
> From my experience with Acorn RISC OS and classic MacOS machines and
> CDs, I found that though they can mount and read standard CD images
> formats, for booting and installing, they tended to need media
> formatted with those OSes' own filesystems. I think VMS is the same.
>
> So there might well be an ISO image for stuff you might need on other
> machines, and the rest in some DG/UX filesystem -- I have never seen
> it so I have no idea what. AO/VS II? UFS or some variant thereof?
>
> In the spirit of blind fumbling I might just try loopback-mounting the
> images on a modern-ish Linux and see if it can autodetect the FS.
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