Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

They are sorted based on the information inside the iso. There are forward/rearward links in there telling the software what iso images to be looking for based on the information stored in the root directory of the iso. The name of the iso has no bearing on what order it's put in nor how it is used. Since the sort has to open each of the iso's in the image catalog it takes a few minutes for it to verify the stack of images as complete and usable.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 3/25/2011 12:35 PM, jmmckee wrote:

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 Hambergvhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:40:45 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussionmidrange-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
> >>>
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