Mark Post wrote: <snip/>
If you could explain what you would have been doing with this ability, = perhaps we could show you a different way to accomplish it. </snip> Hi Mark, Today we mount the Linux installation CDs on a Fedora NFS and build the ISO images that are then FTPed across the intranet to a zLinux guest. The install tree is then built on the linux guest. Creating Linux images from the install tree on a linux guest (on a vswitch) is so much faster than when the install tree is built on an NFS in the network. I just thought that if we could provide the guest access to the DVD drive we could build the ISO images directly to a file system on zLinux. (Not sure if I'm adequately describing this.) Admittedly, we don't need to do this often, but when we do, it seems that it would be a big time-saver. I'm presuming the DVD in the HMC would be able to read the SUSE SLES Installation CDs. Thanks... susan
