Hello,

> Not possible.  Linux doesn't speak the required protocols to make VMS
> access the remote CD.

My apologies for resurrecting dead thread but i ran into similar
situation today: i got me VMS 7.3 media, plugged in external Yamaha CRW
8424 (jumper set block size to 512 rather than 2048) and did 

>>> boot/r5:10000000 dka400:

as suggested in installation manual; machine barfs with something along
the lines of

%VMB-F-ERR PC = 00001350
%VMB-I-STS R0 = 00000810
(could be wrong on second line since i'm typing from memory but first
one is correct for sure)

So i was wondering what exactly that BACKUP thing does with VMS073.B
during installation anyway - i can get the file off the installation
medium (using vmscd) but i don't know what to do with it. I guess this
BACKUP is just some kind of equivalent of tar ? Whatever magic BACKUP
does with that file is apparently all it takes to get VMS to boot from
HD (according to installation book), i guess it would recognize the CD
afterwards but just might not want to boot VMS from it because it
doesn't identify itself as DEC gear.

FWIW, CD drive works like a charm under NetBSD (2.0_beta). I don't have
any other bootable Vax CD medium here so i can't verify whether it's VMS
that doesn't like my CD drive or it's my machine that is being picky and
won't boot off of it no matter what i feed it. I thought about burning
me an old copy of NetBSD but IIRC both 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 ISOs are broken
(and 1.5.x are unsafe and the rest are ... ancient and out of sync with
reality).

Any suggestions ?

Blaz Antonic
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