On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:12:56 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >> >>Without first having some z/OS base system? No. You cannot install z/OS >>without z/OS. ... >> > If this is literally true, it bodes ill for the future of z/OS. > There can never be any new installations and z/OS is doomed to > die by attrition. > > (Yah, I know; I snipped a qualification.) > > But still, why not boot from network, like other computers. > > -- gil You can IPL from an IPLable tape and restore volumes and install that way. Problem is they don't have tape drives.
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