Looks like I was able to access the DVD from the hmc using the enable FTP access. After various attempts of going through the installer prompts and verifying and issuing shell cmds that I am able to see the DVD and its contents, it finally worked. It may have been the sequence of events of when I enabled access to the DVD or just being able to issue cmds to verify access and contents to the DVD. So now I am passed the **no repository message found and finished all 6 of 6 Loading installation system.
Thanks to all who responded and assisted. Especially to Mark and Alan for their insight and expertise. >From this point, I think it may not be as challenging in terms of network issues. I hope. But if something comes up, I may post again for assistance. Kind Regards, Steve On Thursday, February 5, 2015, Berthold Gunreben <b...@suse.de> wrote: > Ok, looks like you already have your linux installer running, but still > need access to a installation repository. I read about quite a number > of possibilities that are all network related. However, there is some > more that could be done in theory, but have requirements: > > 1. Use a Fibre Channel attached DVD Rom. That way, you can not only > boot from the DVD, but also install from there. It is not easy however > to find such a device. In our local installation, we have a pathlight > gateway attached to the SAN. The actual DVD drive is a SATA drive that > has a SATA - SCSI converter which in turn is attached to the pathlight > gateway. > > 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. > > 4. If you already had z/VM, you can also install there and later on run > the guest from LPAR. For this, the disk device must also be available to > both systems. > > For the sake of completeness (probably not helpful in your case): > > Internally, we use a shared zFCP disk for a netboot system. The actual > system is a KIWI appliance that is loaded from the netboot during > bootup. That way, we can deploy our buildservice worker by just doing a > reipl over snipl (and yes, this is on LPAR). That however really needs > a networked installation server. > > Berthold > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 18:15:04 -0600 > Steve P <steve.lin...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Thank Mark for your detailed response. I have check all that and all > > the network config is there and I can see the OSA and all the IP > > addresses. > > > > I don't think I will be using the z/OS FTP server. > > > > Thanks also Alan for your input. I am continuing to try accessing the > > hmc FTP server by way of enabling the access to the DVD. It doesn't > > seem to be working and continue to get the no repository found. So > > now the challenge is how to help the network group in figuring out > > how to open that access between the installer/lpar and the FTP > > network of the hmc DVD. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > I will also look at a network FTP server outside of the hmc. Since > > the DVD is at a different location than where I am, I will have to > > find a way to copy them from the DVD to an FTP server without losing > > its integrity. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday, 02/03/2015 at 03:46 EST, Steve P <steve.lin...@gmail.com > <javascript:;> > > > <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > So for the FTP file server I can use the hmc enable FTP access > > > > to mass storage media giving the installer the IP address of the > > > > hmc. And giving the lpar IP address to the hmc FTP facility (for > > > > lack of a better name/word). I just want to know for sure If > > > > this is valid option for me. If not then I will abandon it and > > > > move to other options. > > > > > > Yes, using the HMC as an FTP server is a valid option. > > > > > > > > If it helps, know that there are special instructions that must > > > > > be > > > used to > > > > > read the data from the DVD from inside the LPAR. The LPAR is > > > > > still authorized to use those instructions (like VM TCP/IP > > > > > does), but > > > without > > > > > that removable media device driver, the authorization does it > > > > > no good. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The special instructions you're talking about is the proverbial > > > > device driver that IBM is yet to develop/allow. Correct? So for > > > > now an IP > > > network > > > > is best? > > > > > > Correct, the special instructions would be used by a DVD device > > > driver. So for now, an IP network your best (only) choice. The > > > only question is how much control you have over the environment. > > > > > > If you wanted to, you could set up an FTP server on your own > > > workstation, put the DVD into your workstation's DVD drive, tell > > > the HMC to Load from FTP Server. Then point to the installer to > > > your FTP server. > > > > > > 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 <javascript:;> <javascript:;> > > > IBM Endicott > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu <javascript:;> <javascript:;> > 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 <javascript:;> 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/ > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Berthold Gunreben Build Service Team > http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 > SUSE LINUX GmbH D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, > Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu <javascript:;> 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/
