I am not sure what the TERSnnnn files are. I think I now see the light. I did not download the final 3 files because I saw something that was not there. I swear that I saw .bin extensions instead of .zip. Since I had no instructions for .bin, I left them alone.
I must really be getting feeble. Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 Install Richard, I think the TERSnnnn files are the RSU. My order download link has expired, so I can't go back and check. The install files are in ZIP format. I have four ZIP files: cd813250.zip contains the system image DVD install files for CKD DASD. CD813260.ZIP contains the system image DVD install files for FBA DASD. I probably won't use this one, but I grabbed it just in case we build an all-SAN system. CD813270.ZIP contains the system image DVD RSU install files for both CKD and FBA DASD. K5T70543.ZIP contains the documentation, in both BookManager and PDF format. I haven't installed z/VM 6.1.0, yet, but I went through the same process with z/VM 5.4.0. I unzipped the install and RSU files, and put all the CKD files in a directory on my PC. I then used Samba to upload the files to a Linux guest. The nice thing about Samba is that I can use Windows cut-and-paste to copy the files. If the transfer gets interrupted, it's easy to pick up where I left off. I work from home, so the upload takes about 16 hours. I didn't have any interruptions with 5.4.0, but I have had them when uploading earlier releases. Once I have the files on Linux, I either install from the Linux FTP server, or use FTP to copy the files to a CMS minidisk. For either approach, I follow the instructions in the manual. Dennis "See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and gunpowder... And gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They're cheap!" -- Heath Ledger as The Joker, in The Dark Knight From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 16:39 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] z/VM 6.1 Install I feel like a fish out of water. I ordered z/VM 6.1 to be delivered electronically, which may have been a mistake. * I have downloaded to the PC, and uploaded to a VM disk, the files pointed to by the notification letter. These were files that have TERSnnnn file types. The recfm/blksize are F/1024. * I DETERSEd the ones identified as the System DDR. These files are V/4095. Now what? I find conflicting instructions. Depending on where I look, I see (1) no DETERSE step, which cannot be right for these files, with instructions that say that the files must be fixed/1028, which fits neither the before nor after DETERSE lrecl, or (2) the DETERSE step is included followed by a reference to a non-existent manual. I see no reason to DETERSE the other files until I have, as Paul Harvey used to say, "the rest of the story." That will only give me more files that I will probably have to erase when I must try some different download. I opened an ETR after running around in circles until I was dizzy on the support web site pointed to by the notification letter. I have no idea when I will get a response. The list is usually faster. Please Help!!! Regards, Richard Schuh
