Scott,

We could not get to the Server that the source was on. That is why we 
downloaded to the workstation. From there we used FTPSERVE to get it in z/VM. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott 
Rohling
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 3:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

Just curious - couldn't you have FTP'd to the server where the .iso image
is and done a GET of the install files?   Using z/VM as an FTP server was
not an option in our case -- nor was reaching the install server via FTP from 
z/VM -- that's why I 'had' to use 3270 file xfer and resorted to VMARC, etc.

But it sounds in your case like you could have reached the install server from 
z/VM via FTP rather then have to do a workstation shuttle or get
z/VM's FTPSERVE working?    Or is this what you did do and I just misread
your post?

Scott Rohling


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor < 
[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, we finally got this to work. Ultimately we had to get FTP working 
> and load using that. Even though the MD5 checksum done on z/VM against 
> the images loaded on z/VM showed a different DISGEST value for the 
> INITRD and KERNEL images from the original HTTP server source (ISO) we 
> tried it anyway. Well it worked! So the difference was how we got it 
> from our workstation to z/VM, which was using FTP instead of the PCOMM 
> terminal emulator SEND/RECEIVE.
>
> Not sure why the MD5 checksum did not match but I will talk to Dave to 
> see If he has any idea as to why.
>
> Thanks for the help and hope this helps other folks who may run into 
> the same issue.
>
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Stuart, David
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time
>
> Terry,
>
> The thought that pops instantly to mind is 'code pages'.  But I would 
> presume that all these transfers were in binary...
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> Dave Stuart
> Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst
> County of Ventura, CA
> 805-662-6731
> [email protected]
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Martin, Terry Contractor
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 8:36 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time
>
> Ok. I got a z/VM MD5 checksum from Dave. We ran it against the INITRD 
> IMG and KERNEL IMG files and sure enough they did not match the MD5 
> value that was sent with the RHEL ISO for these two files. So the 
> assumption is corrupted files. The files we downloaded from the HTTP 
> source server to our workstation are good. We ran a MD5 checksum on those and 
> they match.
>
> Our initial load of these files from our workstation down to z/VM was 
> via the PCOMM terminal emulator SEND/RECEIVE.  We MD5 checked these 
> files and they don't match.
>
> So since we have some security issues at this shop currently using 
> FTPSERVE we tried using FTP to move the files from our workstation to 
> z/OS and then FTP from z/OS to z/VM. Note using FTP all the way through.
>
> We than did another MD5 checksum on the files on z/VM and they still 
> don't match. So it looks like something is happening to the files on 
> transfer to z/VM.
>
> Any help or ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Dave Jones
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time
>
> Delivered to Terry off list.
>
> DJ
>
> On 08/25/2014 11:32 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > You said you had a copy of a MD5 CHECKSUM REXX EXEC. Can I get a 
> > copy of
> that and the directions on how I would run against the INITRD image 
> file that is sitting on my 'A' disk?
> >
> > Terry martin - Contractor
> > Cell - 443 854-2452
> > Office (NCC) - 410 965-8682
> > Email - [email protected]
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> > Of Dave Jones
> > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:05 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time
> >
> > Alan is referring to the CMS/TSO Pipelines Runtime Library 
> > Distribution
> which you can find here:
> >
> > http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/
> >
> > This version of Pipes supports significant new function over the 
> > version
> that is shipped with z/VM.
> >
> > DJ
> >
> > On 08/25/2014 10:20 AM, Alan Altmark wrote:
> >> On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:56 EDT, Mark Pace 
> >> <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Is there an MD5 chksum routine for z/VM?
> >>
> >> If you have the non-IBM CMS Pipelines runtime distribution, check 
> >> out the "digest md5" stage.
> >>
> >> Alan Altmark
> >>
> >> Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z 
> >> Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group, Endicott, NY
> >> office: 607.429.3323
> >> mobile; 607.321.7556
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