Re: bootable CD-ROM media?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Centerfield Technology may still sell their CD-ROM Studio product - I 
used to work there, 8 or 10 years ago. I think they had an option for 
the LODRUN option for the CD - it made an ISO image of sorts that'd be 
burnable - saves you all the trouble.

I don't work there, so this isn't a <verndor response>!

Link to site is http://www.centerfieldtechnology.com/CDROM-Studio/

HTH
Vern

On 3/17/2012 11:15 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> You can create a bootable CD, but before you go there you need to know
> the process is really, massively, painfully, ugly, and downright nasty
> SLOW.  I mean really really SLOW.  I tried it once on my 810.  After
> many many hours I finally had to abort the job, IPL out of it and get
> some work done.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
>
>
> On 3/15/2012 11:03 PM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >      Looking at some of the information about creating CD-ROM media for installation, etc.  Yes, in this case specifically CD-ROM and not DVD.  (older hardware in question)
> >      I've read some interesting guides such as this one:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v4r5/ic2979/info/rzai4.pdf  that say you can do a SAVSYS and save the
> > SLIC and stuff and get it to a CD-ROM, but you have to do some nasty stuff like set up the pointer in CD-ROM block 15 to point to the QCDIML file.  Neat, but all the docs
> > I can find aren't exactly geared toward bootable SLIC CD's, though they all mention it's possible.
> >      So, my question is, has anyone managed to get an IPL-able CD-ROM image built?  If so, how?  How exactly does one get the block 15 stuff set up?  Or does that come
> > automatically in the QDSETMAP file?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance!!
> > --