Re: Writable image catalog - usable as LODRUN?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the confirm, Brian - thought I'd done something like this - 
now I have another tool in the kit.

Vern

On 5/22/2013 5:41 PM, Brian Johnson wrote:
> Did that and it worked great.  The writable volume made developing LODRUN
> code much easier; compile to QTEMP, save to
> /qopt/<writable-virtual-optical-volume>, LODRUN, repeat until bug-free.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Just got an installation CD from a vendor and asked our system guy to
> > install the product. We do everything with image catalogs and apparently
> > don't have an optical drive easy to use - I can't respond to any
> > questions as to why that.
> >
> > So I believe we can create an image catalog, then an image catalog entry
> > with FROMFILE(*NEW) and mount it on a virtual optical device.
> >
> > Now if we copy the contents of the CD to that image catalog -
> > /QOPT/SOMECDID - either with FTP or a file share - is that virtual CD
> > usable for installing with LODRUN? IIRC, I believe that an IMGCLG IFS
> > object can be copied to a PC - it can be an ISO.
> >
> > I also gave him an installer for Daemon Tools Lite, which can create an
> > image from the CD.
> >
> > Just wondering about the alternative I described - I hope well enough
> > described!
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vern
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