On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Adam Thornton <athorn...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > >> Are you sure the 2222 disk is R/W and that it is the right size? I >> tried to do it from the "quick ref guide" and found that it was >> missing some of the steps that you need (and are only in the real >> book). > > You mean the missing 22cc and 2cf1 disks, or something else? > > That *was* sort of annoying, wasn't it? Not hard if you already have an > idea of what is being done to construct the 2d-level primer system, but if > you were a newbie, I can see how it would leave you baffled. And of course > if you are (shock, horror) editing your user directory by hand then just > adding the appropriate disks could be much harder than it was for me.
Yes, it was! Enough for me to actually file a RCF to tell them that the summary had almost all the step, except missing this one. And no indication as that it was not complete. I'm not sure that had the effect I was hoping for. After a few false starts, I ended up using "count lines | cons" instead of eckdrest to find out how large the disk was supposed to be. It really does not have to be in MAINT - you don't want to run the 2nd level system in MAINT anyway, so why mess with things. It's also only needed briefly in the process, so for me 3 T-disks would be fine. And in theory when you ship the GA of z/VM 5.4 you don't know upfront how large the payload for those disks will be in the next release... And I don't think you really need the three disks - it could have been enough just to ship a single disk to bootstrap the process. Rob
