On Tuesday, 02/03/2015 at 01:56 EST, Steve P <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > So setup a remote network bases FTP server that can communicate with the > hmc IP ports and load that remote server with the files in those 2 > install DVDs. Or enable FTP access to mass storage media by giving it the > IP address of the Lpar?
Not quite, no. Having been loaded by the firmware from the DVD, the installer wants to reach out and get the files. It can't get them from the DVD directly because it doesn't know how (no driver). So it has no choice but to use an IP network connection to a file server (ftp). To use an IP network, the installer needs two different IP addresses; one for the itself and one for the FTP server. Those IP addresses must be able to communicate, either directly or over a router. The network config data you supply to the installer must reflect the proper subnet masks, router IPs, etc. etc. > > 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.) > > So after the LOAD from removable media DVD and the the Installer starts > the installation prompting for network configuration. And then asks for > the FTP server IP address, Does the Lpar or Linux installer is > still authorized to access the DVD or not? I would think yes since it > hasnt been use again since the Load. If it helps, know that there are special instructions that must be used to read the data from the DVD from inside the LPAR. The LPAR is still authorized to use those instructions (like VM TCP/IP does), but without that removable media device driver, the authorization does it no good. > > 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. > > So there is not a driver for in Linux for the hmc removable media. Not yet > from IBM. Correct, though an earlier comment from Mark made it sound like someone is looking at it. 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/
