If by "in house" you mean installed then no. We do have the DVD for z/VM. I don't see how having z/VM helps. The problem is getting the files from CD to z/VM (actually to the Linux installer).
Believe it or not the only DVD reader we have here is the one on the HMC. All of our Intel systems have CD readers, and not DVD readers. We only have one CD writer in the entire department. As far a I know we have no DVD writers. This seems to be due to some miss-guided security constraint. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linux install from z/OS. >>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:13 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Fargusson.Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone tried to use z/OS to serve the install CDs for Linux? Yes, someone did, and reported their results here. I think they used FTP, though. Search the archives for more, but they did have some issues they needed to correct. I'm assuming you're asking this because you don't have z/VM in house? -snip- > The problem I have is that we don't have an Intel Linux system that I can > put the install CDs on. We also don't have a Windows box with enough disk > space. All we have are laptops with little RAM and small disks. Are you really talking about CDs, or one DVD? If the latter, then you don't need any space on a hard drive. Also, what version of what distribution is this? If it's SLES10, you can actually insert the DVD (or CD1) into an Intel box and boot from it. It won't touch your hard drive. After you get some network setup done (unfortunately manual at this point in time), you have an install server on your desk. > I should also note that our operations group says it is too dangerous to use > the HMC as a file server. Uhh, yeah. Right. Meaning they're afraid of the unknown. Oh well. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email from the State of California is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review or use, including disclosure or distribution, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
