On Tuesday, 02/03/2015 at 10:00 EST, Steve P <steve.lin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I open an shell if I am signed onto the hmc remotely? If so where and > how? I thought you coul only open a shell if you are locally sitting at > the hmc console PC.
You cannot open a shell into the HMC, even if you are local on the HMC. If you're not near the HMC, then installing from the DVD is more complicated. 1. The SE (not the HMC!) for the CPC you are using must be able to access an FTP server that you have set up somewhere. 2. That FTP server has the DVD mounted on it. 3. You use the HMC's 'Load from Removable Media or Server' and load from the FTP server. 4. Select the installer's 'install from FTP server' function and point it to the same FTP server. #1 may be a show-stopper since it requires drilling a small hole in your HMC/SE LAN. Adjust the firewalls to allow only a limited number of communications partners with the SE. (And, no, the HMC cannot act as an FTP proxy.) Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
