Also when I try to do a "verify installation cd-rom/dvd" under the "Expert" in Main Menu (after having done a Load from Removable Media or Sever), it fails with messages:
Insert Installation CD-ROM or DVD *** No CD-ROM or DVD found. On Monday, February 2, 2015, Steve P <steve.lin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok having issues ftping into the hmc DVD. Most likely it is closed off by > the firewall. I'm having the network guys look into it and open up the > connection. > > In the meantime, I have been playing around with the "enable FTP access to > mass storage media" in the hmc. To be clear, I understand that this opens > an FTP session to the hmc DVD Tom drive to the FTP IP address I specify. > Correct? If that is so, when it pops up to select Media Device (on hmc), > why does it say DVD-RAM Drive (no label found)? Should it not say DVD ROM > Drive ? Is the RAM drive a different drive? Or are they one in the same? > > Thanks. > > > > On Friday, January 30, 2015, Steve P <steve.lin...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steve.lin...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> Thanks that I understand. >> >> >> On Friday, January 30, 2015, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 1/30/2015 at 06:57 PM, Steve P <steve.lin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Thanks. But I don't understand how ftping into the FTP server is >>> going to >>> > tell me what file to get. I don't even know what file is failing for >>> that >>> > matter if that is the issue. >>> >>> You don't need any particular file. Just the fact that you can get >>> there at all, using the network information you were provided is the most >>> important thing. If you can retrieve any of the files I listed previously, >>> that's good enough. And if it turns out Bruce's HMC acts differently than >>> yours, and the top-level directory of the DVD is _not_ at "/" then you can >>> try and find out where it is and give that path to the installer. >>> >>> >>> Mark Post >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit >>> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
