RE: restore from CD without optical drive

Did you get that to work, Lim? I'm just curious because I've done that
before with success, but I had trouble with a multi-volume PTF group
when it reached the second or third volume. If I recall correctly, there
was a PTF file that spanned the volumes and that is what it choked on.
What surprised me is that I thought my ISO image would look exactly the
same as the original CDs. Like I said, just curious. Seems to me I tried
Nero and some other free utility to create my ISO images.

Thanks,
-Marty

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date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:39 -0500
from: "Lim Hock-Chai" <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: restore from CD without optical drive

Thanks. Will try it out.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:28 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: restore from CD without optical drive

Create an ISO Image on a PC (e.G. imgburn is a free application that
does this for windows, dd on Linux works as well), upload it to your
System i, create an Image Catalog, add the Image, create a virtual
optical drive, mount the Image Catalog to the virtual optical drive, use
the virtual optical to RSTLIB.