Dennis - I shall suggest that the requirement is therefore appropriately
qualified. I still wonder where DEFINE MDISK comes into the picture.
Just to round this off ...
Installation completed successfully, exactly as per the manual. I now have
a base-level system installed from an FTP server and upon which I shall soon
install an up-to-date RSU.
Note that 2nd-level userid used for installation is a Class G userid with no
privs - I
Jeff,
The class B requirement is there because the instructions tell you to
ATTACH the DASD to the installation guest. Obviously, if you put the
DASD in the directory, you don't need to issue an ATTACH command.
Dennis O'Brien
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the
Jeff Gribbin writes:
INSTDVD runs and happily loads up the system minidisks, exactly as per th
e
manual until it gets to the end of the, 'base' system load. At this poin
t,
it issues MSG
HCPIRU8484R PLEASE PLACE THE SYSTEM RSU DVD IN THE DRIVE, THEN TYPE GO TO
CONTINUE OR TYPE EXIT TO
Hi Malcolm,
Did you see/do the top of page 70:
If installing from a:
...
FTP server directory, upload the contents of both the z/VM system
DVD and the RSU DVD to a new directory on the FTP server.
...
Upload the contents of each DVD to the directory. After the
I've dug around in the EXECs - two points come to light ...
I failed to invoke DVDPRIME with the, 'server' option ('DVDPRIME ( SERVER')
- therefore :DVDSOURCE in £PRIME£ £FILE£ was loaded with, 'DVD' rather than,
'SERVER' and consequently INSTDVD was not aware that it should skip the RSU
On Friday, 06/10/2011 at 07:51 EDT, Malcolm Beattie beatt...@uk.ibm.com
wrote:
(2) Have you ever done it using non-offset-0 minidisks?
Yup, multiple times. Shouldn't cause any problems at all. Just so
long is there's enough room on the resulting minidisks to fit a
whole mod-3 minus a few
