> What type of media contains the installation image? > > Local CD/DVD
Z systems don't have local CD/DVD -- so you can't select that one. > Hard Drive If you have a mod 27 or mod 54 and have copied the install media to a Linux-formatted minidisk linked to the id, then you can use this one, but it's unusual. Very fast, though. > NFS directory If you have the media mounted on a workstation, then NFS is one good option, but it requires a NFS server. Note that most of the Windows NFS servers do not correctly handle symbolic links, so if you're doing it from Windows, NFS will probably not work. Works great with Linux or Unix NFS servers, though. > URL Works well with the personal HTTP server in later versions of Windows. You need to configure the personal HTTP server to access the directory holding the install media, but once that's done, works well. If you have a running Linux of whatever release, I'd install an NFS server on it and copy the 5.6 media there. Then you can use that as a install server via NFS w/o having to putz around with NFS on Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
