>>> On 2/5/2015 at 03:17 AM, Berthold Gunreben <b...@suse.de> wrote: 
>
> 2. Write all the contents of the DVD to a Disk with a Linux
> supported filesystem (zFCP or DASD) and use the expert mode to activate
> that disk in the installer. After this, you can install from directory.
> 
> 3. With zFCP, it should even be possible to just dump the disk to the
> Fibre Channel device and use it as installation source. Unlike the zFCP
> attached DVD Rom, you will not be able to boot from there, but still
> can use it as installation repository.

Unfortunately, the installer does not allow for "install from a directory" on 
System z.  I believe it was removed because no one ever used that method.


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/

Reply via email to