Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-23 Thread Susan Zimmerman
Robert Nix wrote: snip/ Access to the DVD drive on the HMC is incredibly slow. I think it was meant as a means of bootstraping up a bare system when you first get it, rather than being intended for long-term use as a mainframe device. It's faster and easier to create the ISO on your laptop and

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-21 Thread RPN01
Access to the DVD drive on the HMC is incredibly slow. I think it was meant as a means of bootstraping up a bare system when you first get it, rather than being intended for long-term use as a mainframe device. It's faster and easier to create the ISO on your laptop and FTP/NFS/SCP it up to one of

Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-20 Thread Susan Zimmerman
Mark Post wrote: snip/ If you could explain what you would have been doing with this ability, = perhaps we could show you a different way to accomplish it. /snip Hi Mark, Today we mount the Linux installation CDs on a Fedora NFS and build the ISO images that are then FTPed across the

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-20 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 2:43 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Susan Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Today we mount the Linux installation CDs on a Fedora NFS and build the ISO images that are then FTPed across the intranet to a zLinux guest. The I'm not at all sure what you mean

Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-19 Thread Susan Zimmerman
Susan Zimmerman wrote: snip/ -- Date:Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:47:27 -0500 From:Susan Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Guest access to z9 DVD drive Hi all, new with 5.3 is guest access to the HMC ASCII console. Does anyone know if z/VM provides guest access

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-19 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 8:01 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Susan Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I was afraid the answer would be No, but hoped someone had stumbled across a way to access it. Susan, If you could explain what you would have been doing with this ability, perhaps

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-16 Thread David Boyes
If you're using SLES, use the DDR starter system install server. The throughput of an internal VSWITCH or GLAN is a vast improvement over FTP to the HMC.

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/16/2007 at 08:51 EST, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't believe z/VM 5.3 provides any way for a guest to access the DVD drive in the HMC. Sorry. Correct. I know the DVD drive in the HMC is a tantalizing morsel, but it is a device that belongs to the HMC, not the

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

2007-11-16 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Susan. No, I don't believe z/VM 5.3 provides any way for a guest to access the DVD drive in the HMC. Sorry. Susan Zimmerman wrote: Hi all, new with 5.3 is guest access to the HMC ASCII console. Does anyone know if z/VM provides guest access to the DVD drive? Thanks in advance. susan