[Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot

[Jeremy Begg]

Hello Peter,

>I made an ISO of a VMS 7.1 CD (not sure if I did this correctly, the only
>tool I could get to read the CD was WinImage - it produced an error message
>as it read the CD, but also a 400Mbyte ISO, so maybe it worked?)

The VMS boot loader doesn't know anything about ISO images -- what you need
is a block-for-block image of the CD-ROM.  I expect that WinImage has added
some data to the image file which VMS can't cope with.

Regards,

        Jeremy Begg

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