>>> On 2/11/2009 at 4:05 PM, "[email protected]" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > You mention creating two DVD's, and IPLing from the DVD reader within the > HMC - do you mean IPL'ing from the DVD directly? > I do not think that that is possible, because we need to specify an MVS > device address in the Activation Profile.
No, there's been a "Boot from CD or FTP server" capability in the HMC for quite a long while now. The downside to this is that once the Linux installer is up, it cannot access the DVD for the rest of the installation files, so you still need a server on the network to provide that. (If you had z/VM installed, you could use the SLES10 Starter System for the installation source, but you said there's no way for that to happen.) -snip- > Would it be true to say that I *must* burn the SLES DVD with a linux DVD > burner? Absolutely not. It's not the OS that does the burning of the media that matters, so much as it's the OS that serves up the media to the installation routines. In the past, those of both SUSE and Red Hat have been sensitive to that, but it shouldn't be the case any more. > If you are in the UK, Mark I would appreciate a telephone conversation (no > committments offloaded on to you, I promise!), and I can provide my contact > details. No, I'm not in the UK, but that doesn't mean we can't talk. Send me your info off list and we'll try to set up a time. 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
