Still pineing for my own VMS machine

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Wed Jun 5 13:05:07 2002

>I have a box of VMS 4.x and VMS 5.x magtape and standalone TU58s and
>RX50s. I want to create a CD-ROM that acts like a VMS 6.1 CD for
>installation under, say, simh. I know I can extract saveset files, etc.,
>to install VMS under simh. I want to package the savesets in a
>more modern fashion and save a step or two at install time.

I assume you have access to a VMS box that can read the
relevant media. If so you can create a container disk
using LDDRIVER (or one of the many other equivalent
freeware utilities). Then use VMSINSTAL to extract
the savesets (all the savesets) to [000000] on this disk.
You may or may not have to manually intervene since
VMSINSTAL depends on saveset naming conventions
that may not have been applied in the V4 days.

Assuming you fill in the blanks above, you will
end up with a bunch of valid savesets in [000000].
You can now use STABACKIT to make the
LD disk bootable into Standalone BACKUP.
(If you feel like it, you can put a complete
OpenVMS system on there ... you might
as well since your kits *must* reside in
[0,0] to work!!).

Now disconnect and dismount the LD disk
and burn the contianer file to CD as
a block-by-block binary (CDR-Win and
Gear can both do this, Easy CD cannot
AFAIK and Nero and Clone CD I have not
used enough to have a worthwhile opinion).
You can, assuming you are set up to do
this, burn directly from OpenVMS with
CDRECORD.


>Is this possible? I have a SCSI CD-R drive (Smart & Friendly 2006, a
>rebadged Sony 926) and SCSI magtape on an AXP/VMS box. I presume
>there is a version of cdrecord for VMS, or an equivalent. Is there an
>ODS-1 or OSD-2 equivalent of mkisofs for VMS? Does there have to be?

For the above method you do not need mkisofs since
you are building an ODS-2 disk. If, however, SIMH won't
accept an ODS-2 CDROM, you'll have to do a
binary FTP of the savesets to a PC and burn
from there (although how SIMH can cope with
the result, I do not know) or pick up the
OpenVMS mkisofs (I have a pointer somewhere ...)
and use that directly.

Antonio
 
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