For a long while I had a Linux guest that I simply had all the CD-ROM
images I needed mounted as disk images I made with 'dd' on a desktop Linux
installation.. I had my SLES8 images, SP3 image, WebSphere images, DB2
Connect images, MQ series, etc all mounted via the loopback device as
read-only.
I had them available via FTP on the same gigabit LAN segment so it was
pretty efficient for me. I have since moved those images to a Linux desktop
system on a 100/mb connection, however, I don't have a screaming need to be
installing that software as frequently now.
If you're interested, I can dig up all the steps I used to create them etc.
"Ifurung,
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I want to set up an installation server on a SuSe9 Professional running on
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Intel desktop. But the option "Installation Server" is not an available
option in "yast / misc" . (It is avail. In SuSE9 Enterprise). Is there a
way to make a SUSE Professional desktop an install server?
Or a corollary question: What configuration would be best to build an
install server to install/service linux guests in z/VM?
a) Desktop linux (see question above)
b) Windows FTP server (unsupported ISO image reader)
c) linux on z/VM (no cdrom reader)
d) others ?
Thanks for any info.
Ismael Ifurung
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