RE: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <Scott.Ingvaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A day late and a dollar short.  I could have tested this yesterday while I was upgrading our Dev LPAR.  I loaded the OS image catalog from DVD and was surprised today to notice that there are no .bin or .iso extensions on the files in that catalog.

They sort like this:

	Image File Name
               
	I_BASE_01      
	B_GROUP1_01    
	B_GROUP1_02    
	B_GROUP1_03    
	B_GROUP1_04    
	B_GROUP1_05    
	F_MULTI_NLV    

So it's not alpha, is it possible that the sort is based on content and not the name?


Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist



-----Original Message-----
From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:41 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

Before you use the catalog you'll do a VFYIMGCLG with *UPGRADE and 
SORT(*YES) so you can pretty much load them in any order you feel like :-)

I've had conversations with the 'iso naming department' about their 
wonderful names and they tell me all that is 'good stuff in there'. So I 
rename them about as suggested by Brian I_BASE_01.iso.

  - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 3/24/2011 4:05 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
> Yep.  Just make sure they are in the catalog in the correct order (not
> sure about volume ID's).  I haven't tried loading them randomly but I
> think they will be searched in order.
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software, Inc
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>
> On 3/24/2011 1:54 PM, John.BresinaJr wrote:
> > I just downloaded the 7.1 .iso images to my laptop.  When I FTP them to the IBM "I" partition can I shorten the names?
> > I really don't want to have them I_BASE_01_IBM-i_Licensed_Machine_code_112008
> >
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