On Thursday, 04/30/2009 at 02:21 EDT, Tobias Doerkes
<[email protected]> wrote:

> So my question: Is there a way to tell the sles11 installation image to
use
> absolute path information for install parameter in PARMFILE?
>
> A possible alternative could be to provide sources via http, but we
prefer ftp.

The iso image contains a hierarchical filesystem so it needs to be
restored to a hierarchical filesystem.  Try loading it into HFS (as you
would into BFS on z/VM).

Beware: When you upload to z/OS, be sure to do it from a Linux or UNIX
system.  Linux CDs or DVDs will very likely contain the ISO 9660 Rock
Ridge extensions (POSIX stuff) that Windows historically hasn't
recognized.  (Maybe Vista is better?)  Example: If a symbolic link is
used, Windows will just transfer a zero-length file or the name of the
linked file rather than linked file's contents.  The upload works, but the
install doesn't.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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