Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott

There are table-of-contents files in each image - at least, I call them 
that. You can see these files if you look for your virtual cd in /QOPT - 
the contents of those files are used, I believe, to sort these things. 
Also, things like prereqs and all are in there, somewhere.

Vern

On 3/25/2011 8:18 AM, Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> 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
> > www.asaap.com
> > www.opensource4i.com
> >
> >
> > 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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