>>> On 2/5/2015 at 01:30 PM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > I think it's because we are very afraid of telling people what to do. I
Hah! Tell Chuckie that was a good one. > think if we had to start all over again, I would vote for exactly two ways > to install in an LPAR: > > 1. Boot (load) from removable media or FTP server and install from the > same source (needs that new device driver!!). The DVD is in the HMC drive > or loaded on my laptop with an FTP server :-). If the driver had been available 15 years ago, things would be very different. But, it still is not, so... > 2. Boot from SCSI and install from the boot device (needs 'install from > directory'!!). That could be physical DVD:or contents copied to a SAN > disk. > > This avoids what I like to call the"Installation Two-Step." No need to > try to loop out-of-band back to the media. For most sites, asking them to use SCSI over FCP is problematic at best. Since z/OS doesn't talk SCSI, there's not a lot of skills there to make it work. Heck, even our z/VM using customers have some problems with it. Good for selling consulting services I guess, but not a real popular idea for sites that don't want to spend money on that. 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/
