First - is the "Recovery Center" a regular D.R. provider such as Sungard? If so, then ask them to have z/VM available. I just did that with Sungard and they said they would do that at NO extra cost.
If the "Recovery Center" is another location, but still your company, nicely ask the people there if they could make the device numbers in the Linux LPAR to be the same as they are at your location. I am the sysprog who maintains the IOCDS/IODF definations where I work. I assure you that this is possible and not really very difficult. A bit of a pain, so that's why you might want to try to "butter them up". If the "Recovery Center" is not a regular D.R. provider, nor another company location, but separate company with which you have some sort of "arrangement", then I'd try asking them (very politely) if it would be at all possible to match your device numbers in the Linux LPAR. Note that creating a separate LPAR defination for you is not really very difficult, just a bit of a bother. We did something similar and (paranoid that I am), when I defined the LPAR, I only allowed access to EXACTLY the DASD addresses that the other company was to use. No way was I going to allow them access to OUR disk addresses! Also, be aware that having an deactivated LPAR defination does not have any "overhead" other than maintaining the defination. I.e. they can create this LPAR defination for your use only and do not need to "shared" the defination with any other system. I hope that I said that in a way that makes sense. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: moving to LPAR > > We are running Suse Linux 8 on a z/VM 4.3.0. We are moving to LPAR in a > Recovery Center without z/VM. We assigned the DASDs using minidisk. The > address of the minidisk is different from the original. How can we restore > our current system without re-install Linux again? How do we re-assign the > DASDs so linux can recognize the new addresses? Any help would be > appreciated. Thanks, > > Best regards > > xgabo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
