Rick,
> We desperately need a one-shot, something that will just do it without so
many moving parts ...
The UBUISO EXEC in "The Ubuntu Mainframe Cookbook" creates a TDISK, copies
the kernel, parmfile and RAMdisk from an install server and punches them to
the reader from there. So no 191 disk is needed.
See
https://sites.google.com/site/mike99mac/UbuntuMainframeCookbook.pdf?attredirects=0
Credit goes to Joe Comitini for that one.
-Mike
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 07:12 AM, Terry Madge wrote:
> > My colleague has been attempting to install Ubuntu under z/VM and has
> created the 4 files required to IPL under z/VM CMS for the first time;
> >
> > INITRD
> > KERNEL
> > PARMFILE
> > UBUNTU EXEC
> >
> > ...
>
> We interrupt this regularly scheduled thread to solicit testers.
>
> It has always seemed cumbersome to go through so many steps to get these
> files, arrange them, punch, and IPL. We desperately need a one-shot,
> something that will just do it without so many moving parts. Brad Hinson
> created zPXE. Cool! But those of us without TFTP and kickstart
> orchestration still need plain HTTP. So ... here's an idea which works
> for me which others might like. Someone please give it a try.
>
> I've had a 'curl' workalike for CMS for a while now. NORDAUTO EXEC uses
> that to fetch a kernel and initrd and feed the punch directly. If you
> consider the list-o-files above, the initrd and kernel are _retrieved on
> demand_, the parm file is represented by a // NORDAUTO file, which
> varies per guest, and UBUNTU EXEC is represented by NORDAUTO EXEC and
> CURL REXX. which do not change from Linux to Linux.
>
> The EXEC and "gem" are in a VMARC at ...
>
> http://www.casita.net/pub/nord/nordauto/nordauto.vmarc
>
>
> The system where most of my toys live is a z10, so I get the all too
> familiar0BAD abend code for Ubuntu. That's one reason I'm calling
> out for testers, people with shiny new hardware. I'm open to
> contributions too! Thanks.
>
> We now return to the previous thread, already in progress.
>
> -- R; <><
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