> I found a link to the SuSe files that I think I need to get started... > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/s390/sles7-beta/31-bit/cd1/ > > 1) Can I download these and use them (w/o support) for free?
You can download them, but they are missing several critical fixes that you need for things like guest LANs to work properly, etc. They will work for playing around, but not for anything satisfactory for testing purposes. You cannot get the necessary fixes without a support contract. > 2) If so, how can I burn a CD to load from our HMC? (I > can't load via FTP) Download and boot the Knoppix CD on a local PC and use wget or rsync to copy the entire file tree to a local machine. You can then do your 390 install from a local machine. -- db
