>>> 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
