[Simh] moving disk images

[Thomas Pfau]

I'm trying to move a VAX image from an Intel linux system to an Alpha
running VMS.  Both systems should be little endian.  A dump of the first
couple of blocks after transferring to the Alpha looks ok.

Jason Stevens wrote:
> I've moved images between various x86 OS's (MS-DOS, Windows, OpenBSD),
> m68k
> (NeXTSTEP), ppc (OS X)...
>
> I wonder if on your target somehow it's "helping" you by doing an endian
> swap & screwing it up....
>
> You can quickly cobble up something to read two bytes from a file, swap
> them
> and write it back out to disk.....
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Pfau <pfau at nbpfaus.net> wrote:
>
>> Should I be able to move a disk image from a linux machine to a Windows
>> or
>> OpenVMS Alpha machine and use it?  I am trying to move my system disk to
>> another computer but it won't boot.  The simulator halts at 4C02.  I
>> have
>> tried copying the file using ssh.  That didn't work so I tried adding
>> the
>> disk image to a zip file and transferring that.  That didn't work so I
>> tried putting it in a tar file.  Still doesn't work.  Is the disk image
>> format different on different architectures?
>>
>>
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