Ok.. I used vm to transfer the 3 files to vm rdr.. Ran the rexx exec to write to tape Ipl'ed the mp2003 and now I get a disabled wait.. Like the tape is not what it is expecting....
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). > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
