>>> On 1/5/2017 at 04:35 PM, "Hamilton, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote: > The documentation on the HMC is "funny" here (Appendix H); if I need to > access the DVD via FTP, I need to go to Configure Network Setup (or something > very close to that), which does not seem to be an option anywhere. HA. > Then, it says I should use "Enable FTP Access to Mass Storage Media", which > I kinda found by accident. When I go there, it asks for the IP address of the > server that will be accessing this DVD drive, so I give it an existing IP > address, only to have it tell me that > > (A) There's no media in the drive, and > (B) I can't read it anyway because the file system is...unknown. > > And then, after I Enable FTP Access Blah Blah it says I can Load from > Removable Media. Or Server. > > There is also an Access Removable Media, that also says there's no actual > media in there.
With SLES12 SP2, there is no need to have FTP access to the HMC DVD drive. You will be able to install directly from the DVD reader from Linux. The problem, of course, is to get your DVD reader to recognize that there is a DVD in it. > So....hardware problem? I don't know whether this DVD drive has been used > since the z114 was installed. What's the MTBF for something you don't use? It's beginning to sound that way. If you know for a fact that there is a DVD in the reader, but the "Access to Removable Media" dialog says there isn't, then it's probably time for a call to IBM hardware support. There are several other ways to try and get the install going. Most of them are more than a little of a PITA, but if you want to try any of them, I'd be happy to talk you through them. I don't see an "Access Removable Media" option while signed into the SE, so I'm guessing you can't just try to use any DVD readers in the SEs. After that, and possibly easiest, would be to have your laptop running CentOS set up as an FTP server and hook it into the same network as your HMC and SEs. Use the "Load from Removable Media or Server" dialog to boot the installation system, then use the laptop as the installation server for the rest of the install. For the "rest of the install" part the laptop will need to be reachable via whatever OSA card you will be using for the LPAR. Next, if you have any of your FICON cards set up with the FCP microcode, and your storage admins have a DVD reader attached to the SAN, you could try the SCSI IPL option from the Load dialog. Further down the list, you'll still need a network server that can serve up the media, but at least from the perspective of kicking off the IPL, you could use a tape drive with the installation kernel, parameter file, and initrd written to it. 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/
