5 Jun
2017
5 Jun
'17
9:27 a.m.
Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic writes:
All the VMS Images I have, even the ones from Digital have ".iso" = extensions so I assume some software "barfs" at other extensions. When I = started playing with VMS images I assumed they were ISO but quickly = found out they are not, they are just block dumps of the filing system, = and I believe if you have a Linux system you can just DD them to a = partition and then mount under VMS. There is a vast collection of VAX = images at vaxhaven.com again all as ".iso" files...
From Digital, I'm assuming d|i|g|i|t|a|l as in Digital Equipment Corp? I don't recall DEC ever distributing anything with an ISO extension save for DECnet-ISO, later called 'phase V'.