It looks like the zVM 5.3 Evaluation Edition page is still up at
http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval. It is a DVD of a system that can be IPLed
and it then runs out of a ramdisk. IIRC, it needs about 3GB to do so.
Looking back at the posts I don't see what this z890 has, so this may or
may not an option.
Vince Coen wrote:
For an OS you can always try MVS 3.8J available from multi sources
including Turnkey 4.
It is a old OS pre OS390 etc but is free with no restrictions.
On 07/11/15 16:43, Connor Krukosky wrote:
So an update from when I posted yesterday.
Me and a friend have (after many hours last night) figured out how to
reconfigure the IOCDS and create a new LPAR.
We also got as far as being able to load over FTP, but that's about
where we got because we are not sure how or where to get an SSH
connection to the machine to continue.
Also if I am installing Linux would I need 3270 OSC ports on the
machine? I figured Linux wouldn't use the 3270 protocol but am I wrong?
My friend also had a theory that you can use a 3270 console to access
the LPAR directly without anything running on it to assist in an
install, if this is true how do I know the IP address of the OSA
card? All I can find is the MAC address.
I've even preformed a network scan in the subnet to see if my router
gave it an address and I just need to find it but nothing appears on
the network that seems to be related to the machine.
(Also note, the SE on this machine doesn't have a built in 3270
console sadly, its an older OS/2 SE that doesn't have this feature.)
The real frustrating part is it seems 90% of the install docs for
Linux speak of installing through something like z/OS or z/VM where
you can define IP addresses and such and know exactly what is going
on. Where as this is an install through the SE (HMC) which is a blind
install almost.
We've made a lot of progress, but there are still a few missing
pieces to the puzzle.
Also as for later plans for storage and such, I am still waiting for
a few pieces to get here but I have an IBM 2108-G07 SAN Data Gateway
that should give me FCP based SCSI storage to install onto once I
figure out how to actually get an SSH into the Debian installer and
actually complete the install.
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