Dennis - I shall suggest that the requirement is therefore appropriately
qualified. I still wonder where DEFINE MDISK comes into the picture.
eace it will be the most
revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known." -- General
George C. Marshall
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Jeff Gribbin
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:20
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re:
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 sha
On Friday, 06/10/2011 at 07:51 EDT, Malcolm Beattie
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 cylinders" or
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
installat
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 th
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
Hmm - In the words of Tom Wolfe, I'm either, 'Stretching the envelope' or
I've, 'Augured in' ...
For the first time, I'm attempting a z/VM 5.4 installation 2nd level from
an
FTP Server Directory (as opposed to straight off the DVD or via DDR).
Irrelevant but maybe of passing interest, the FTP S
