1. No not from a bare metal system
2. yes, another system vse/esa.. That is what I have been trying to do.
ftp to the vse/esa to vsam files.. Ditto vsam files to tape and
then ipl the tape from the mp2003
3. I also have vm on a z800...put into vm's rdr q.. Then
use a rexx exec and put the files on tape in this order
kernel.debian
parmfile.debian
initrd.debian
From the
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-s390/current/tap
e/
Right ???????
Thanks for everyone's help
Ralph
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 12:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: mp2003
>
> > 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).
>
>
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