Access to the DVD drive on the HMC is incredibly slow. I think it was meant
as a means of bootstraping up a bare system when you first get it, rather
than being intended for long-term use as a mainframe device. It's faster and
easier to create the ISO on your laptop and FTP/NFS/SCP it up to one of you
Linux guests.
Remember that, while the HMC is "part of" the mainframe, it isn't directly
attached; it's networked to the mainframe on a private network, and probably
a slower one than you have attached to your OSA cards.
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On 11/20/07 1:43 PM, "Susan Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
