Fw: First install of 5.4: 2 questions/problems

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Hammock
Just an update and more info to my problem (no, it's not fixed). I checked with a coworker who was installing zVM 5.4, from DVD, on a z9 at the same time (different site/customer). He ran into the same problem with the INSTVM DVD step. He tried to just bypass the check in the exec, but ended

Re: Fw: First install of 5.4: 2 questions/problems

2009-01-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
The trick seems to be that when the right steps are followed, the RSU envelopes land on the MAINT 500 disk as by magic (because the particular track images happen to be in the directory). When you load the two DVDs onto an FTP server, the contents of the two get merged. I thought that when you

Re: Fw: First install of 5.4: 2 questions/problems

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Hammock
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Re: Fw: First install of 5.4: 2 questions/problems

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Bohnsack
IMHO the install doc is getting muddier with each new release. I suspect that the reason for it is to make it so simple or straight forward that anyone who knows nothing about VM can follow the rules. This is to assist the lifelong MVS'er or *IX person to drop in a VM hypervisor and then get