>>> On 2/6/2015 at 12:03 AM, Scott Rohling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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..
That's what I was talking about. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System will do just that. > 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? Yes, you have missed it. https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=l5_UjT5Nvmk~ That will do exactly what you want, and for exactly the same reasons you list. 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/
