[email protected] wrote:
Hi Mark!
I really appreciate your comments - it is nice to know us novices didn't
screw things up!
We had considered every other alternative in preference to creating a 'boot
cart' and *then* performing the rest of the install off a DVD that was
loaded into the HMC's DVD drive, but we always found some
technical/political reason why that would not be worth trying.
You mention creating two DVD's, and IPLing from the DVD reader within the
HMC - do you mean IPL'ing from the DVD directly?
I do not think that that is possible, because we need to specify an MVS
device address in the Activation Profile.
(I have a vague recollection of confguring an HMC workstation to emulate an
'internal reader' function, but I did not investigate further, because it
sounded a bit obscure to me, I guess I missed a trick there...)
One a similar vein, I used Windows/XP's Roxio Creator to 'burn an ISO image'
to DVD.
A friendly face on this forum suggested that a Windows-based DVD burn *would
not* properly create diectories, hard or symbolic links, thus rendering the
DVD "corrupt" from a Linux point of view.
I have had suspicions about my DVD burning techniques(!), and have spent
some time 'surfing the web' to confirm that burning software CD/DVDs is
fraught with problems.
Would it be true to say that I *must* burn the SLES DVD with a linux DVD
burner?
No.
I've used freeware imageburn (imgburn?) on Windows. That's fine. I've
used Nera that came with a DVD burner. It gets associated with .iso
files and does the right thing.
It's easy to test whether you've done it properly: insert disk in drive
on your windows box, and see what files are on it.
One file, you've stuffed it.
More than one, almost certainly it's okay.
The DVD image is a file. One can write any kind of file to optical media
- I once put a tarball onto CD accidentally. What is important is
agreement between the writer and the reader, and th ISO9660 standard
provides that agreement. However, Apple does things a little
differently, and Joliet is a MSFT non-standard.
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Cheers
John
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