When the consultant who helped us install SUSE Linux, SLES9 and SLES10 on our 
z/VM system left, he apparently didn't set up the installation files for future 
use properly.

We have a virtual machine (LXSRC at IP 10.200.1.13) that contains the 
installation media for SLES9 and SLES10. The plan was that, when other VM's 
needed to install optional software from the original installation media, they 
could simply FTP from LXSRC. This seems to work fine for the SLES9 systems, but 
not for the SLES10 systems. The base SLES10 system that I cloned to create the 
system I'm working on now, points to the consultant's laptop, which, of course 
is no longer here. I tried changing the IP address to that of LXSRC. 

No luck. 

Upon further examination, the SLES10 directories are essentially empty. 
However, there is a 4.5GB file named SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso. I'm guessing 
(and hoping) that this is an iso image of the installation DVD.

Is there an easy way to "extract" the files from this iso file and create the 
source files needed by the software management function on my SLES10 target 
machine?

My fallback plan, if I can't extract the iso, is to somehow ftp the files from 
four SLES10 installation CD's that I have. 

I'm also open to any suggestions that I might not have thought of. I'm pretty 
much a beginner with SUSE Linux. This is the first time I've tried to install 
and/or modify an existing installation, so I'm learning as I go.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Paul Noble, Systems Programmer
Cuyahoga County Information Service Center

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