On Thursday, 11/30/2006 at 07:56 CST, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be wonderful to be able to IPL from the DVD via the HMC, and > then access the DVD contents via TCPIP while still on the HMC. IBM could > do this with the new Linux-based HMCs, but I have not heard that they > allow this. I have "heard" that the HMC is totally locked into the HMC > application, no access to Linux at all.
You can. On newer HMCs you have to enable network access to the DVD. On older versions, it's there. Boot from the DVD and then use FTP to reach the DVD. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
