>>> On 4/27/2016 at 04:07 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > >> >>> On 4/27/2016 at 03:51 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > They IPL from the DVD and then use the HMC DVD as a ftp source. >> >> Coming soon will be the ability to IPL _and_ install directly from the HMC >> DVD drive. It'll be a slow as !@$$ but it won't require an installation >> server somewhere. You'll still need to connect _into_ the system over the >> network to complete the install (via SSH or VNC) of course. Even that >> could be avoided if you set up a custom DVD that points to an autoinst.xml >> file on the DVD itself and use VNC as the installation method. Completely >> unattended install without a net. :) >> > > And so the z/VM people put the z/OS people even more to shame.
Well, z/VM has been able to do a full install from DVD for a while now. I was referring to Linux being able to do it as what was "coming soon." (Now that we have an open source driver and FUSE for it.) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
