Originally posted by: unixgrl

My NIM servers don't have access to CD drives and if they did, I'd need change tickets to load a CD.

So...I downloaded the 5.3TL7SP3 DVD from the IBM Entitlement site.
This is an ISO image of the DVD. I followed instructions that enabled me to mount this as a cdrfs filesystem. When I look at the contents of the filesystem, it looks exactly like the contents of the physical DVD.

However, when I try to make an lpp_source specifying the mounted cdrfs filesystem as the source, I get a lot of "archive is not in backup format" errors and an error stating that "bos is not in backup format" with several packages needed for simages missing. Everything it complains about is in that mounted FS.

IBM support doesn't know what to do with this....apparently they only expect us to download ISO images to turn them into CDs.
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Originally posted by: kappa

hi,

1) do you have a product (base os) DVD or an update (ptf) DVD?
you need installable filesets in order to create a lpp source.
check with: installp -ld /mount_dir

2) what is the right base dir? the mount point of your cdrfs?
you need a base dir that contains a subdir called "installp"
which contains a subdir "ppc" which contains installable BFF Files. (not just PTFs)
check with: ls -l /mount_dir/installp/ppc

--jk
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Originally posted by: unixgrl

1) I can't use a physical DVD due to issues accessing the physical host. I have an ISO image downloaded from IBM.

2) My directory looks like this:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 4000 4000 49 Nov 1 2007 .Version
drwxr-xr-x 2 4000 4000 2048 Nov 1 2007 5300-07
-rw-r--r-- 1 4000 4000 16 Nov 1 2007 OSLEVEL
-rw-r--r-- 1 4000 4000 1512 Nov 1 2007 README.aix
drwxrwxr-x 4 4000 4000 2048 Nov 1 2007 RPMS
-rw-r--r-- 1 4000 4000 5711 Nov 1 2007 bosinst.data
-rw-r--r-- 1 4000 4000 14407 Nov 1 2007 image.data
drwxrwxr-x 3 4000 4000 2048 Nov 1 2007 installp
drwxr-xr-x 3 4000 4000 2048 Nov 1 2007 ppc
drwxr-xr-x 3 4000 4000 2048 Nov 1 2007 root
drwxr-xr-x 10 4000 4000 2048 Nov 1 2007 usr

This directory structure matches what's on a physical DVD and I've verified the file sizes and content is the same.
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