Reading a VMS CD-ROM for SIMH under Windows?

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Feb 28 12:00:00 2003

--- Thomas Dzubin <dzubint_at_vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
> Yes, I went through the exact same thing...
> I couldn't find anything under MS-Windoze which would get the CD
> directly.

Foo!

> It helps to have a dual-bootable machine with MS-Windows and
> Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD/whatever

Not an option in this case. If it were, I'd already be done.

> I rebooted my machine under Linux and just do the "dd" command
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=vms.img
> (which you probably already know about).

Exactly.

> (I'm assuming here that everybody has all of the correct & legal software
> licenses)

He works for HP. Licenses aren't a problem.

> I don't think there is any way for SIMH on Windows to read the CD
> directly, you need the intermediate image file first.

Thanks for the confirmation.

-ethan
Received on Fri Feb 28 2003 - 12:00:00 GMT