RE: remotely manage ptfs

Marty,

That should be possible.

Since the .BIN files you download from FTP can be either be used in the
image catalog or burned to a CD and loaded from CD.  It seems reasonable to
expect that that you could make your own .BIN files from a CD.

I would guess that you'd need to use a CD burner to read the CD.  Every CD
burning software I've seen has an option to save an image of the CD onto
your hard drive.  Usually with a .ISO or .BIN extension.

Give it a shot and report back. <grin>

Charles
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Urbanek, Marty [mailto:Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:05 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: remotely manage ptfs
> 
> 
> I wish we could put the CD in a PC and transfer its image to an image
> catalog and install from there. I need to install PTFs from a 
> home office
> and iPTF has problems with my VPN and home firewall 
> combination. I have been
> looking for a way that I could just order the PTFs on CD and 
> install them
> from my PC, thus eliminating iPTF from the picture.
> 
> -Marty
> 
> ------------------------------
> date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:40:03 -0400
> from: Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: remotely manage ptfs
> 
> My only comment is that you can do most everything remotely except for
> mounting CD's and putting the system into manual mode (which 
> represents a
> security risk).
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