Do you have a DVD writer? If you can assign that to the LPAR with the mksysb image, you would then:-

Code:

cfgmgr -S
lsdev -C|grep cd
mkdvd -d /dev/cd0 -m /mksysbfs/mksysb.file
rmdev -dl cd0

I'm assuming that the DVD writer is detected as cd0

Use DVD-RAM media, not DVD-R, DVD-ROM or DVD-RW.


To get you round your request short term, you can make a virtual optical device on the VIO server and assign that. The same commands on the LPAR with the mksysb image file.


Two important points:-I hope that these suggestions help. Let us know what you plan to do and how you get on, or if neither of these is viable.



Robin