Stephen, Thanks for your reply.
The answer to my problem is so simple that I think I have given it to much thought. I'll try it tomorrow if I get the time Kind regards, Michiel Bello. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Frazier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michiel Bello (Wanadoo)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:46 PM Subject: Re: Copieing debian image from LPAR to z/VM > Your Linux disks are available on the z/VM LPAR. All you need to do is > to IPL (boot up) your existing Linux in a z/VM guest. Then add your > minidisks to it and copy using dd any files you want on the minidisk. > You don't need a boottape. You have a disk you can boot from. The same > disk that you boot from in an LPAR can be used to boot from in a z/VM > guest. You only need to run zipl if you wish to change the device you > are booting from. You do not need to run ftp just mount both the from > and to disks on the same guest and use dd to copy it. > > Michiel Bello (Wanadoo) wrote: > > Arnd, > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > We've already used dd to create backup copies. What I need is a way to copy > > it onto a minidisk and then a way to run zipl. > > Our knowledge of VM is rather limited, we've used it in the past but that is > > an odd 15 years ago, so we're almost learning from scratch again. > > Could you tell me if the creation of a minidisk is a destructive process? If > > not it might be possible to somehow convert a 'normal ' dasd device into a > > minidisk (I'll try this tomorrow) > > However I am than still left with the problem of being able to run zipl. In > > my opinion I can't really do anything without a driving system under VM. > > I think the easiest way would be to create a boottape and get ftp up and > > running to copy the entire image onto a minidisk. I will then be able to > > change the configuration and run zipl. > > > > However I would still be interested in other methods if there are any > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Michiel Bello > > > > "Arnd Bergmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 03 June 2003 00:04, Michiel Bello (Wanadoo) wrote: > > > >>Currently we've got Suse and Debian both running native each in their own > >>LPAR. We've just installed z/VM on another LPAR and I was wondering if > >>there is an easy and quick way to copy the entire debian image onto a > >>minidisk under z/VM thus avoiding another full install of debian under > > > > z/VM > > > >>?. Our DASD's are shared between all three mentioned LPAR's and also with > >>another z/OS LPAR so I've got almost every possible utility at my > > > > disposal. > > > >>Any tips on this matter (and links to e.g. How To's) are welcome. > > > > > > You can easily copy one dasd to another one with the 'dd' command. > > Assuming you have two dasds '/dev/dasdb' and '/dev/dasdc' in your > > LPAR, where both are formatted, partitioned, not mounted and of the > > same size and /dev/dasdb1 contains the original OS that you want to > > copy to /dev/dasdc1, one possible command is > > > > dd if=/dev/dasdb1 of=/dev/dasdc1 bs=4096 > > > > Now you can mount /dev/dasdc1 and update any settings that need > > changes (most probably /etc/zipl.conf, /etc/fstab, /etc/network/interfaces > > and /etc/chandev.conf). To be safe, do a 'chroot' into the copy and rerun > > 'zipl' > > there. > > You should be able to boot it like to original one, both in LPAR and in VM. > > If you need to use a minidisk instead of the full dasd, it gets slightly > > more > > complicated. > > > > Arnd <>< > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+29gG5t5GS2LDRf4RAmR1AKCUNiVTvP71U3+Ir4K8vlCZkY4GdgCfXrvT > > wLHYURY1dO2xTy0ypHKyajc= > > =U+3F > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Stephen Frazier > Information Technology Unit > Oklahoma Department of Corrections > 3400 Martin Luther King > Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 > Tel.: (405) 425-2549 > Fax: (405) 425-2554 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
