On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:25:19 +0100, R.S. wrote: >... >For blank new installations - download (or order media) DVD images of >Driver system and put it into DVD drive in HMC... Well... there is no >longer DVD drive... However you can put DVD content into some ftp server >directory and IPL from that directory. > Ah! So it's possible to IPL from network. (IANASysadmin, so not in my skill set.) FTP only, or other schemes? FTP is problematic; too widely considered insecure. Windows has a server, concealed under IIS; I've used FileZilla server.
MacOS and Linux readily support mounting .iso images; so "content" step may be skipped. Windows image mounter flickers in and out of support. I used Virtual CloneDrive (Dolly? in logo). Never for IPL (IANASysadmin), but for SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK. Testers found the process so tedious I fell back to packaging a "pax"ed SMPNTS and recommending "pax -r"; RECEIVE FROMNTS. Some customers wished for a set of .xmit PDSU. I demurred; masochists: Too many steps for them to install; unlike any IBM product (but the customer cited one product so packaged. It was from a recently-acquired subsidiary). And too many steps for me to package. I perceived aversion to RECEIVE FROMNTS as UNIXphobia. Our product was not so large that DASD space was a concern. Can't please everyone. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
