How about under z/VM? z/VM I can install from DVD on the HMC... now I want to install (an enterprise edition of) Linux... as far as I know, I still can't do it without networking to an external server. This is where I'm hoping I'm just behind the times..
What I'm wanting is a way to give a customer a quick POC of z/VM-Linux without requiring they have an existing server that must be networked to. In some situations, this has been a deal breaker.. Outside of working through the firewalls, finding someone in the customer org to 'host' the DVD image/directory can be a problem. It's a little confounding to them to explain this need to install a mainframe product. That's why I've been thinking about an ECKD image 'starter system' that can be FTP'd to z/VM and restored with a small Linux on it to act as install server for either one or many penguins. But being that I can't distribute Linux in any such fashion for a customer - I keep hoping the distributors will come up with a simple starter system. Have they and I missed it? Scott Rohling On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 2/5/2015 at 10:33 PM, Scott Rohling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I find that the Linux install under z/VM on a new z has the same issue > ... > > you need an existing install server (not on the z) to do an install of > > the DVD image or install directories. Once you have one built you can > > turn it into your new install server -- but until then you're stuck > trying > > to network to an external (from the z) server. Or... am I hopelessly > > behind and not aware of current solutions? (happens more and more often > as > > I approach senility) A Linux minidisk image (PIPEDDR, whatever) setup > as > > an install server would be great -- but are the distributors willing to > > provide this? > > For z/VM there's the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System. It's > been available for the last seven (7) years: > https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=l5_UjT5Nvmk~ > > > I guess I'm asking: is there a distributor solution for bare hardware > > that doesn't require network access to some other box? My impression is > > no.. > > This is an entirely different question. For "bare metal"/LPAR installs, > no. At least not yet. If that HMC DVD driver doesn't appear soon, I've > got an idea that I believe will work. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
