Mike, > 1. It seems to me that in the past the product package as shipped from > IBM included the latest RSU on whatever media the system was ordered on > (in our case, DVD). But there was no RSU in any form in the shipment.
Really? Are you *sure* that there weren't two DVDs in the case? As long as I've been installing VM from DVD and writing about it (5.1-5.4), I have always received two DVD discs. INSTDVD copies the majority of the first DVD, then asks for the second and copies the first RSU to the MAINT 500 disk. In the Virtualization Cookbook, we wrote this step: "You are asked to place the system RSU in the drive. Insert the "z/VM Stacked Recommended Service Upgrade 5401" DVD into the HMC DVD-ROM drive" One time Somebody told me that the second DVD can be skipped if you plan to put a later RSU on. Well that didn't work - I had to configure TCPIP to get the next RSU over to MAINT 500. Well things went downhill from there because TCPIP was configured incorrectly by running on a system without the RSU shipped with the media (I'm pretty sure that was 5.3). We ended up reinstalling from scratch. The lesson I took away from that exercise is to always-always-always use both DVDs when installing VM via INSTDVD. So if you don't have the second RSU disc, I'd recommend getting it, and installing again. (but I don't speak for IBM). Hope this helps. "Mike MacIsaac" <mike...@us.ibm.com> (845) 433-7061
