On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:32, Florian Bilek wrote: > Hi Pat, > > May be these URLs help. The SE supports IPL from CDROM or FTP. > > http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/pdf/l390gp2.pdf > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/suse/s390/sles7-beta/31-bit/ >c d1/sles7_s390_en.pdf
I've seen these already, but thanks. > For IPLing into an LPAR, there is the option to directly load from the > MP3000 or HMC CDROM device. It also allows you to IPL via FTP from a server > holding the SuSE Linux S/390 files. Find this button near the 'LOAD' button > (if you have upgraded to the latest MCL, see Chapter 5 page 17). For using > the HMC to run this operation, there is no button 'Load from CDROM or > server' available on the HMC's console. Start a remote session to the SE > via the single operation button. The SE's remote console then shows the > 'Load from CDROM or server' button. 15 The problem is that the SE doesn't have that button, just a 'Load from diskette' button. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/

