Hello again, If you are running with z/VM:
I prefer to load the .iso to a non secured FTP on Linux somewhere else. Other people manage to FTP directly from the Red Hat web site. You need to have TCP/IP connectivity using either vswitch or dedicated OSA triplet. It work best if you have a valid static IP address assigned on the z/VM subnet. Make that available to your virtual machine in the CP directory using either nicdef or dedicate. Follow Red Hat doc: a) load the required files in CMS b) use the provided exec to IPL from the z/VM virtual reader. c) provide connectivity details as needed I hope this helps! Michel Beaulieu IBM Services (Canada) |*| ________________________________ From: Michel Beaulieu <[email protected]> Sent: August 20, 2019 8:41 AM To: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Redhat build first time Hello, The first thing to do is check with the z system hardware specialist if the "service element" (SE) has connectivity outside of the CPC. Usually, hw people would isolate the SE from the network. If such is the case, the best (or may be the only way)) is to burn the .iso to a physical DVD and load it in the HMC. That involve doing IPL from the DVD in the LPAR, no other OS running simultaneously on this LPAR. Follow the doc from Red Hat. I hope this helps! Michel Beaulieu IBM Services (Canada) |*| ________________________________ From: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> on behalf of Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> Sent: August 20, 2019 1:53 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Redhat build first time Jake Anderson wrote: >This is the first time building redhat guest on zVM. I don't have >a web server or Apache to place the redhat executables. Is there >a other method to follow and build Redhat golden image ? If you have access to the Hardware Management Console (HMC), you can create removable media with all the Red Hat files you need then retrieve them from there during installation as a guest under z/VM. That process is explained pretty well here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSB27U_7.1.0/com.ibm.zvm.v710.hcpl0/ftploc.htm This path uses the z/VM FTP server. It can be used not just for the initial boot but also for the Anaconda-based installation if need be. Some patience may be required depending on your HMC model, media type, and z/VM guest resources. I've never tried it, but theoretically, speculatively, the Anaconda-based installation could run via NFS (Network File System). z/VM has a NFS server, or perhaps you have some NAS (Network Attached Storage) that's reachable within the boundaries of your environment. If you have another operating system on the machine, notably z/OS, with a FTP, HTTP, and/or NFS server available and reachable, you can load the necessary Red Hat files there then install from that network source. Presumably you're using a PC or Mac as your user access vehicle to instruct z/VM, and presumably there's a network connection to z/VM. Could you run a lightweight FTP, HTTP, and/or NFS server on that PC or Mac? It sure seems like that'd be technically possible, at least. Or maybe you're not, and maybe you're using the HMC directly. If so, see above. I recommend consulting IBM's "Getting Started with with Linux on IBM Z" document, IBM Publication No. SC24-6287. Here's the current direct link (subject to change): https://www.vm.ibm.com/library/710pdfs/71628700.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
