> The reason Mike did his mksles9root script to prepare the file tree is > that this way you install the latest versions from the service pack > rather than the older base levels. Yes, that and because working with individual loopback-mounted-ISO-CDs seems to be tricky at best (and if you want to serve the files via NFS, you cannot use loopback mounts unless your NFS server crosses mount points). Further, I believe there is a bug on s390 in the patch CD update function when working with SLES9 SP2 or SP3 (still haven't heard anything from bugzilla). The script works around that bug my modifying a mediamap file.
I believe SP3 is GA so I sent Mark an updated script with the following file names: # hard-coded file names for the 3 31-bit SLES9 Service Pack 3 CD .iso images sp3cd1="SLES-9-SP-3-s390-RC4a-CD1.iso" sp3cd2="SLES-9-SP-3-s390-RC4a-CD2.iso" sp3cd3="SLES-9-SP-3-s390-RC4a-CD3.iso" # hard-coded file names for the 3 64-bit SLES9 Service Pack 3 CD .iso images sp3cd1="SLES-9-SP-3-s390x-RC4a-CD1.iso" sp3cd2="SLES-9-SP-3-s390x-RC4a-CD2.iso" sp3cd3="SLES-9-SP-3-s390x-RC4a-CD3.iso" (Can anyone confirm that these are the file names of the GA SP3?) Hopefully Mark can put that up on http://linuxvm.org/patches/ Using this script is described in chapter 5 of the redbook "z/VM and Linux on zSeries: From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two Days", on the Web at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246695.html We hope to have an update of this material. Hope this helps. "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
