Thanks, Michael.

I have seen the new system firmware version, too, I installed it on two systems that's how I ran into the zip vs. iso problem. Btw, both the HMC and the system firmware upgrade went without problems. It's just annoying to see the easy way go away. It's either that they really remove the possibility of a network install of fixes, which is pretty much a shame, or it's that the information they provide with the networked usage of the new format is insufficient. Either way, IBM should do better.

And come on, it just can't be that IBM cannot give us an easy way to install a service fix. Why can't I ftp or scp the file(s) to the HMC? It can't be a double space problem, the fixes fit on a single CD, the HMC has a 146GB drive... And after installation the files can be deleted.

The real hard question!  

No. I cannot say I know why. But I can guess that it has to do with general changes in how images are being viewed in general. A zip file is not really an install format - and it needed to be unzipped before it could be installed, so it was on the system twice.

What I will need to look at is whether these iso images can be nfs mounted and installed from and/or whether they need to be ftp'd to the HMC first and then mounted - because my guess as to why is that they are mounting the iso image - not requiring administrators to burn an iso image to media and physically update.

But that is just my "best guess"tm