On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:49, you wrote: > I didn't see any replies to your question. > (But I have some filtering in place. Sorry if I missed anything.)
That's because no one replies to the mailing list... > > Sorry, but I'm trying to learn and am beginning to realize I really know > > nothing about these beasts. > > Sounds like you have a physical S/390 since you mention the SE laptop. > There is a way for some S/390 systems to present files on CD > as if they were files on tape. This is clearly true for > P/390, Multiprise, and IS class machines. Dunno about yours. > > What kind of S/390 do you have? > What OS is it running right now? I've got a 9672-RC4. The SE currently doesn't have a CDROM, but I'm getting one to put in it so that I can try to boot from it. Of course, I still have the issue that the app on the SE has a 'boot from [floppy] diskette' instead of a 'boot from Server or CD-ROM' option... I'm hoping I can dig around in the OS/2 directory structure to tell it that the diskette is actually the CD-ROM I'm getting for it. As I thought I said in the email, it has *no* OS. I got it without any DASD or other storage systems, I was just glad that the software on the SE and HMC was still there. At the moment, I don't have any DASD, and am hoping to just get some sort of kernel to boot and run with an NFS root or something to check out the hardware until I can get some DASD to put on it. At this point, the S/390 is somewhat jerry-rigged into running, in a space that was never designed for a mainframe. : ) Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
