You're probably right about his knowledge transfer. Part of it is my fault, or at least the circumstances. After he left, I didn't have a chance to do much real work on the Linux machines, so the knowledge didn't sink in as well as it should/could have.
Anyway, I tried your mount command. I'm pretty sure that I copied it correctly, but it doesn't seem to like it. It immediately gives me a brief tutorial on the syntax of the mount command, although it doesn't explain what it didn't like about my command. Note that there is a space in the file name. Is this confusing the command into not knowing where the first argument stops and the second begins? Do I need to enclose the filename in quotes or something? Thanks, Paul Noble >>> Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/2007 1:18 PM >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:38 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the consultant who helped us install SUSE Linux, SLES9 and SLES10 on our > z/VM system left, he apparently didn't set up the installation files for > future use properly. I'll bet he did. See below. (However, he apparently didn't do a fantastic job on knowledge transfer, which is too bad.) -snip- > Upon further examination, the SLES10 directories are essentially empty. > However, there is a 4.5GB file named SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso. I'm > guessing > (and hoping) that this is an iso image of the installation DVD. You are correct. > Is there an easy way to "extract" the files from this iso file and create > the source files needed by the software management function on my SLES10 > target machine? No need to extract the files. You can do what's called a "loopback mount" of the image: mount -o loop SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso /path/to/ftp/sles10/directory/ Now, the downfall of this is that by their nature, .iso images are read-only, so you can't update the installation tree with subsequent package updates. (You can get around this with doing a number of bind mounts (another advanced topic), but it's not very elegant, for lack of a better word.) So, if you don't mind running YaST Online Update on every newly installed system, that's not a problem. If it is, then you might want to extract the files to disk. I would recommend that you do this with the Service Pack 1 .iso image though, not the GA one you have. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
