Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

Maybe the sort starts after the first two characters? If so, that brings up the question of why. But, that looks like how they are sorted.

John McKee

-----Original message-----
From: Vern Hamberg vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:40:45 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

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

John Bresina Jr| Sr Engineer | TTS Server Tech Unix HQ/iSeries | *Target | 33 S. 6th St.| Minneapolis, MN 55402 | 612 304 3665 (ph) |

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