Map the disks as provided by IBM - in previous releases the last cylinder
 
has deliberately been left unallocated - this allows you to create 
(nearly) "full-pack" minidisks at cylinder 1 of a real volume (through to
 
the end of the volume) and then restore the whole of the, "starter" onto 

those disks without problem. I would expect one to be able to run a 
complete install in a Class G second-level userid that possesses the 
requisite number of minidisks of this kind (that is, just ont cylinder 

short of a full pack).

Because the real volume serial number is on real cylinder zero, 
the, "duplicate", second-level volumes (whose volsers are on virtual 
cylinder zero - real cylinder one) never have the chance to be exposed at
 
first level and so cannot cause any, "first level" confusion. It's a grea
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way to practise installations but, of course, the systems installed on 

minidisks that don't start on real cylinder zero can only be IPLed in a 

virtual machine so this kind of test system cannot be used as the 
emergency repair-kit for the production system - to do that one needs to 

go that one step further and change the labels so that the packs can 
coexist at first level - not difficult but maybe something to save until 

one feels a little more confident.

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