On Thursday, 02/05/2015 at 12:43 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 2/5/2015 at 03:17 AM, Berthold Gunreben <[email protected]> wrote: > > 3. With zFCP, it should even be possible to just dump the disk to the > > Fibre Channel device and use it as installation source. Unlike the zFCP > > attached DVD Rom, you will not be able to boot from there, but still > > can use it as installation repository. > > Unfortunately, the installer does not allow for "install from a directory" on > System z. I believe it was removed because no one ever used that method.
I think it's because we are very afraid of telling people what to do. I think if we had to start all over again, I would vote for exactly two ways to install in an LPAR: 1. Boot (load) from removable media or FTP server and install from the same source (needs that new device driver!!). The DVD is in the HMC drive or loaded on my laptop with an FTP server :-). 2. Boot from SCSI and install from the boot device (needs 'install from directory'!!). That could be physical DVD:or contents copied to a SAN disk. This avoids what I like to call the"Installation Two-Step." No need to try to loop out-of-band back to the media. 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/
