Thanks Phil that is the way to do it.
But now I can see the real problem.
I have to go through the firewall http server at 10.74.12.13 perhaps I have
the parm line wrong to start with.. Any suggestions?

root=live:http://thuegel:[email protected]:portx0x0/
dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fed
ora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img



[    4.746161] dracut: fetching
http://thuegel:[email protected]:portx0x0/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedo
ra/s390x/os/images/install.img

http://thuegel:[email protected]:portx0x0/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img

curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.74.12.13: Network is
unreachable

[    4.755042] dracut: FATAL: failed to download live image: error
1
[    4.755055] dracut: Refusing to
continue

[    4.760515] dracut Warning: Mounting root via 'eth0'
failed
dracut Warning: Mounting root via 'eth0'
failed

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:37:27AM -0800, Tom Huegel wrote:
> > Still having a problem, but I think the solution may be simple.
> > The problem (I think) is that in the new GENERIC PRM file the "root="
> parm
> > is longer than 80 characters. I am installing with z/VM and need to
> 'punch'
> > that file to the reader. Punch files can only be 80 bytes, so the
> question
> > is 'How can the root= parm be continued?'.
>
> Can't you simply continue on the next line? IIRC the lines 80 byte lines
> are
> simply concatenated without spaces.
>
> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern
>
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