Make sure your DVD creator software finalizes the disc before you take it out of the PC. DVDs aren't readable on arbitrary systems until the disk is finalized.
It'd be a lot more useful if IBM shipped a DVD image instead of the raw files. Most DVD creation software automatically does the Right Thing with a .iso file. Fwiw, the Joliet extensions are the windows file system extensions that allow file names longer than 8.3. Systems running WinXP or later automatically have them enabled. > On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:08 PM, "JO.Skip Robinson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm at my wits end. I've been trying to build a DVD for z/VM 6.3. I cannot > make one that the HMC recognizes and reads. I started by downloading the > code to my PC as cd760531.zip . When I unzipped this file, I got directory > CPDVD containing 1257 files. I then burned this directory and content to a > DVD. It looks perfectly fine on my PC, but attempt to LOAD it from the HMC > fail with a message saying that the 'target' (I assume this means the z/VM > LPAR) cannot access the media. > > I've opened an SR with z/VM. They suggested using DVD-R (no better) and > 'Joliet file system extensions'. Whatever Joliet means, I don't know any > way to invoke it. I can't find the original DVD I used for z/VM 6.1, but > the file set looks analogous to 6.3. I never had this kind of problem with > 6.1. I've tried this process on three different HMCs. > > Any user-experience suggestions? > > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
