Thanks guys on your responses. It looks like we will be going down a different path now with some recently dicovered information for our install. In my original post I didn't indicate I'm installing z/VM 5.4 on a z10. The following is from page 111 of the z10 System Overview, System z10 Enterprise Class, SA22-1084-03:
Installation support for z/VM using the HMC The System z10 EC allows the installation of Linux on System z in a z/VM 5.4 virtual machine using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) DVD drive. This function does not require an external network connection between z/VM and the HMC. Instead, it utilizes the existing internal communication path between the support element and the HMC. Installing z/VM from the HMC DVD drive using the legacy support and the z/VM support, z/VM can be installed in an LPAR and both z/VM and Linux on System z can be installed in a virtual machine from the HMC DVD drive without requiring any external network setup or a connection between an LPAR and the HMC. Thanks, Ross Ross Johnson Sr. Systems Programmer National Defence Ottawa, Canada K1A 0K2 internal email: ross.john...@forces.gc.ca external email: ross.johnson.for...@gmail.com Telephone 613-991-3938 Government of Canada -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, 13, July, 2009 17:30 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SuSE install from z/OS On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 04:46 EDT, Ross Johnson < ross.johnson.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have multiple z/OS 1.9 lpars and I am in the process of a SLES SP2 > install, only I am curious as to whether anyone has attempted the > installation from z/OS. I have already FTP'ed both DVD's into the UNIX file > system on z/OS, and wish to serve the data from that point during the > install. Anyone tried this? Thanks. The Linux distro DVDs often have symbolic links that are destroyed by Windows-based FTP servers since the Windows DVD drivers don't support symlinks. If you use a Linux or other Unix FTP server, then the file will be duplicated when it is uploaded to z/OS and everything should be ok. (I think the symlinks are there to simplify the build; I don't think Linux installation depends on a single source file. But I don't know for sure.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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 lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
