Re: burning v5r4 cumulative ptfs to cd

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose it's a matter of opinion, Scott.  But they do offer a few 
advantages:

   * One has to download the image anyway (unless you send a media
     order) so time is not an issue
   * If the CD turns out to be bad (been there, done that) you can get
     screwed bad
   * There is no muckin' around with the CD drive.

It does, obviously, take disk space.  I'm sitting at 45% used (with the 
images still out there) so for me it's not an issue.  For others that 
could be important.  But that's the only reason that I can think of for 
not using image catalogues.  Well, besides the fact there's a lot of 
twisting and turning in the wind to learn all of the commands.


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Scott Klement wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
>   
> > Others are probably going to suggest this, but here goes.  I just 
> > created an image catalogue and downloaded them straight into the IFS (a 
> > mapped drive in Windows).
> >     
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but...   do image catalogs make sense 
> if you have only one machine to install to?   I see people discuss them 
> frequently on this and other forums, but I really don't understand the 
> point.  Why waste gigabytes of disk space on CD images when you can just 
> load the PTFs directly from the CD?
>