Re: OPT1365 from ADDIMGCLGE?

Scott,

Glad you got it to work. Sounds like there may have been some issue
with the CD from IBM.

I've never had a problem ripping the image directly from the iSeries.
Also don't understand why FreeBSD would be able to rip it, but not
mount the image.

I do know that IBM uses two different disk formats. Or at least the
v5r4 OS disks come in two formats:
* ISO 9660 format
* ISO/UDF format

(from https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/software/delivery/en_US/burningcds.html
)

But that should only come into play trying to burn them to CD.

When ripping, and/or using the rip image the format _shouldn't_ matter.

Charles

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Charles,

That's essentially what I ended up doing. I didn't get your message
until I was done, but your advice is right on the money, that ended up
being the solution to my problem.

I couldn't rip the CD images from i5/OS, but I could do so using
FreeBSD. So I used FreeBSD to create ISO files, and then I tried
loading those into the image catalog -- but they didn't work. So then I
tried to see if I could mount the ISO image files from FreeBSD (since I
knew I couldn't on i5/OS) -- and that worked. So then I created a new
CD image file by copying the data off of the old one into a new one,
except I didn't write it to CD, I just made the image file on the HDD.
The new image files that were built from scratch by FreeBSD (as opposed
to ripping from the CDs) worked in the i5/OS image catalog! So... by
about 11pm last night I had successfully loaded everything into image
catalogs, it was just really hard to figure out.

But, you were exactly right, I had to create the image file from the PC
instead of ripping it from the CD. Ugly, for sure! But it worked.

Next time I'll know better than to try to use i5/OS to rip the image.

Charles Wilt wrote:

As a test and/or work around, try creating the image from a PC.

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