> How am I going to get the files from Sinome to the mainframe without > first getting in to my windowz box...
Maybe we need to back up a few steps -- I'm confused now. Are you trying to write the tape on the bare-metal system? If so, you're not going to have much luck, as Linux has few useful tape utilities (and the Marist load doesn't include the tape drivers AFAIK -- it wasn't intended for any real production use). Do you have another system with a existing OS capable of creating a tape the MP2K can read that is also capable of FTP? If so, transfer the files to that system and create the tape there. If the other system is a VM system, then FTP the files to your A disk. Attach a tape drive to your id and do something like this: TAPE WTM 25 (to obliterate any labels on the tape) TAPE REW FILEDEF IN DISK kernel img a FILEDEF OUT TAP1 (LRECL 80 RECFM F MOVEFILE IN OUT FILEDEF IN DISK parmline txt a FILEDEF OUT TAP1 (LRECL 80 RECFM F MOVEFILE IN OUT FILEDEF IN DISK initrd img a FILEDEF OUT TAP1 ( LRECL 80 RECFM F MOVEFILE IN OUT TAPE WTM 5 and detach the tape (the zOS equivalent is left as an exercise to the reader). Take that tape to your MP2K and IPL from it. If you don't have another system, then your options are basically to: 1) get someone to make a tape for you (send me a tape and a prepaid mailer, and I'll build you one - -I can handle 3420, 3480, 3490) 2) Get someone to DDR a working Debian system built on the same type of DASD as you have for you and try to find a copy of an IPLable DDR (usually the first file on IBM distribution tapes for operating systems). (see offer above -- send me a dozen 3480s and a prepaid mailer to send them back to you, and tell me what kind of disks you have). 3) get VM The Debian/390 CD images are not IPLable (either ours or the ones from debian.org), so it really doesn't matter whether the MP2K can IPL from CD or not (the boot code isn't there to IPL). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
