Re: Image Catalog Caveats?

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is the .iso type of file you are creating isn't compatible with 
the image catalog. I played with that early in V5R2 and never got my PC 
generated images to work so I always create them on a System i box and 
then FTP them from there. i5/OS uses some binary format which I have 
forgotten.

Do you have local access to a System i where you can create the image 
and send that over?

- Larry

Alfredo Delgado wrote:
> I've been trying to install the Java Toolbox (5722JC1) onto an i5 a 
> state away by utilizing an image catalog. The image catalog part of the 
> equation appears to be working fine until I try to verify it after 
> loading the disc image I created from a CD.
>
> I created a virtual optical drive and varied it on:
> CRTDEVOPT DEVD(OPTVRT01) RSRCNAME(*VRT) ONLINE(*YES) TEXT('Virtual 
> optical drive for image catalog.')
> VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTVRT01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)
>
> I created an image catalog:
> CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(IMGCATALOG) DIR('/IMGCatalog') CRTDIR(*YES) TEXT('image 
> catalog')
>
> I created a level 1 iso 9660 disc image and copied it to /IMGCatalog' 
> then added it to the image catalog:
> ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(IMGCATALOG) FROMFILE('/IMGCatalog/D2924_04.iso') 
> TOFILE(*FROMFILE) REPLACE(*INSERT)
>
> I loaded the image catalog unto the virtual optical drive:
> LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(IMGCATALOG) DEV(OPTVRT01)
>
> Then failure:
> VFYIMGCLG IMGCLG(IMGCATALOG) SORT(*YES)
>
> Any pointers on where I might have gone wrong  would be helpful.
>
> David Gibbs and these links have been helpful to me:
> http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/575.html
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200407/msg00103.html
>
> Thanks,
> Alfred
>
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