tyvm, Alan, it explains everything.
Alan Altmark <[email protected]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> 08/31/2010 04:33 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Electronic Delivery - DDR or DVD? On Tuesday, 08/31/2010 at 09:54 EDT, George Henke/NYLIC <[email protected]> wrote: > I have done as you said and here are the instructions. I have bolded the text > in question. The instructions call for selecting DDR. Then the instructions > at the bottom for installing from FTP Server, Chapter 7, Step 3 of Guide For > Automated Installation and Service, call for using the downloaded DVD image. > > Apparently, we are to download DDR to upload DVD. Ah, now I understand (I think). Big Picture: There are three possible ways to get z/VM: 1. On DVD by ordering "z/VM System Image DVD" on 3590 or 3592. (Huh?) Don't worry - you won't receive a tape, just a DVD. 2. Electronically, by ordering "z/VM 3390 System DDR" using Internet delivery. But don't be fooled by the name! It is actually a softcopy of the DVD contents (not an iso file). 3. On tape by ordering "z/VM 3390 System DDR" on 3590 or 3592. Aha! You actually get what you seem to have ordered. For reasons that are both embarrassing and inexplicable, we do not yet have the ability to have a single z/VM product (e.g. z/VM V6.1) available in four different media types (DVD, 3590, 3592, Softcopy). Progress is occurring, but it's slow. If you want to install from FTP using, you order the DDR with electronic delivery and follow the special instructions included with the order. Those instructions have you load the softcopy files into your FTP server. You can also create a DVD from them. Your completed Shopz order contains links to instructions on how to do that. (I worry that people don't see them.) If you'd like to see them: http://www.vm.ibm.com/install/vm54inst.pdf http://www.vm.ibm.com/install/vm61inst.pdf Most people create a DVD so that they have a bootable system recovery disc "just in case." We are making efforts to improve the Planning sections of the Automated Installation book and the post-order instructions so that the above will be more obvious, with explicit references between the two. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
