Rick, to compliment: Hercules have a IPL_DVD command. No need to map the source .iso file if installing into Hercules.
Using Windows as a server, we can mount the .iso file on a free "dasd letter" (using the freeware program MagicISO by example) and enabling this letter to any FTP server (FileZilla?)... Using any Linux (including zLinux or PC flavors) we can "loop mount" the .iso file (mount -o loop <dvd-file.iso> /mnt/cd1) and exporting it (put /mnt/cd1 into /etc/exports) for use with NFS (the better choice). All these options keep the symlinks and enable installation of zLinux without problems. ______________________________________________ Clovis From: Richard Troth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/12/2010 14:47 Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> So ... we're glad you're flying now, and you don't need the following, but I will post anyway for reference. Following on what Clovis suggested, you can get Hercules to treat a DVD as an FBA disk. Depending then on the installer, you may be able to "install from local media". It is probably more reliable than any network installation. It is certainly more efficient than a network installation. Take a snap-shot of the DVD as a .iso file, just like Clovis said. (Or use the original image you downloaded, if you burned the DVD locally.) Tell Hercules that is a 9336. Then within Linux, load the dasd_mod_fba driver and point to the device thus defined. Voi-la! Local media. Not just Herc, but anything which will attach a "file" to the S390, emulated or otherwise, so we're talking P/390 and stuff. -- R; <>< Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 16:22, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried that but the installed kept saying various rpms were missing - even > though they were there - very weird. > > Install is now complete - I created an FTP server on Ubuntu on a separate PC > - mounted the DVD and served it back to the installer from there - once this > was setup the install occurred without incident is a couple of hours. > > Thanks to all for assistance. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Agblad Tore" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:17 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems > >> Hi, About the DVD and the symlinked files problem, >> just take the sym links and move the real files to the linked places, it >> works fine after that :) >> >> Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga >> Hälsningar >> Tore Agblad >> >> Volvo Information Technology >> Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development >> SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden >> E-mail: [email protected] >> >> http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ >> ________________________________________ >> From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bern VK2KAD >> [[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 04:10 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems >> >> Hi >> >> I was encouraged to try this technique - I can see the file structure but >> the symbolic links are still unresolved. >> >> I copied the iso to a USB thumb drive which found a home at H: - I then >> mapped an E: drive from the ISO using a free "Mount'n'Drive manager from >> DAEMON tools lite. The iso contents are successfully shown on the E: >> drive >> but the symbolic links just look like empty datasets - a 0KB file. >> >> I then tried a linux ftp server called vsftpd which I installed using >> apt-get. Everyting looks fine - ftp'ing into the ftp server gives the >> expected results and the install tree looks correct and the symbolic links >> actually work. >> >> Unfortunately, when I try to connect to this server via the RedHat >> installer, all I get on the log is "Couldn't connect to server" >> >> My next attempt is work out how to create a NFS connection - more reading >> needed. >> >> B. >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Clovis Pereira" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:47 PM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems >> >>> Hi, >>> My circunvention to it, is copy the entire DVD as one .iso file to WinXP, >>> mount the .iso as a virtual driver and enable it to FTP server. This >>> preserve all DVD structures. >>> There are a lot of free programs to create the .iso file and to create >>> the >>> virtual drivers. >>> ______________________________________________ >>> Clovis >>> >>> >>> >>> From: >>> Alan Altmark <[email protected]> >>> To: >>> [email protected] >>> Date: >>> 06/12/2010 01:41 >>> Subject: >>> Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems >>> Sent by: >>> Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, 12/05/2010 at 05:44 EST, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> My next issue was the file structure on the DVD - my FTP server is >>> >>> Filezilla >>>> >>>> running on XP - I simply copied the DVD contents to a folder on the FTP >>>> server - alas this created another problem - the symbolic links for >>> >>> repodata >>>> >>>> and packages weren't handled properly >>> >>> Actually, the problem is not the file structure, but Windows XP itself. >>> Windows Vista is the first version of Windows to include support for >>> symbolic links in NTFS. Hopefully MS added the support to the CD/DVD >>> drivers as well. >>> >>> Alan Altmark >>> >>> z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant >>> IBM System Lab Services and Training >>> ibm.com/systems/services/labservices >>> office: 607.429.3323 >>> [email protected] >>> IBM Endicott >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >>> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >>> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
