On Tuesday, 02/03/2015 at 12:12 EST, Steve P <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as issuing the FTP command within the installer shell to view > contents of the hmc DVD, I guess that would only work if I enabled the FTP > access to the hmc DVD. But since I don't have a valid client ipaddress (in > this case the Lpar IP address) then it won't work , would it? The ifconfig > command showed inet addr of 127.0.0.1 but the hmc did not recognize it as > valid.
I realize now, Steve, that no one has ever stopped to explain to you how the mainframe accesses the DVD. Every LPAR has an associated I/O configuration that includes disk drives, tape drives, fibre channel adapters, display terminals, and network adapters. But no DVD drive and no USB drives. They are accessed differently. Without the additional support that Mark referred to in one of his first responses, the installer cannot access the removable media on the HMC. When you the "Load from removable media or FTP server" recovery task, that media is automatically authorized to be accessed by the LPAR, and it remains so until the LPAR is deactivated, you load another LPAR from that same media, or you manually release the media. (I don't remember if placing the back-up media into the drive causes it to be disconnected from the LPAR or not.) You might imagine an LPAR wanting access to the DVD later. It can, via the "Access Removable Media" recovery task on the HMC. That's how you allow the VM FTP server to access to the removable media outside of the Load From DVD process. That way you can install Linux using a network installation to access the DVD without going outside the box. Of course, you don't have z/VM. But if Linux gets a driver for the HMC removable media, it will be able to access the removable media or the remote FTP server to complete the installation without having to have a network connection to the LPAR itself. That's how z/VM and z/OS are able to be installed from the HMC. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [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/
