Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Timothy Sipples
If you're looking for some "What next?" ideas, here are some potential ones, not necessarily in order: 1. If you have a HMC with a DVD-RAM drive, it might be possible to automate IPL to some degree using a custom DVD. 2. The z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition is published as requiring a z10 machine, but

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Jim Stefanik
: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 12:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install >>> On 5/30/2017 at 12:32 PM, Jim Stefanik wrote: > As promised, and update for anyone interested. I did manage to get it > working; just a bit differently than I expec

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 5/30/2017 at 12:32 PM, Jim Stefanik wrote: > As promised, and update for anyone interested. I did manage to get it > working; just a bit differently than I expected. > > I had to go through the install a second time, but at the 3rd to last step, > where it asked if I want to install a

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 5/25/2017 at 05:04 PM, Jim Stefanik wrote: > Oh wow - ok - I feel dumb now. Reading Mark's post over a couple of times, I > now understand. Those addresses are locations in RAM where the files get > stuffed and tell the CPC where to execute from. No need to feel dumb. For quite a whi

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Jim Stefanik
Jim Stefanik Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 17:04 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install Oh wow - ok - I feel dumb now. Reading Mark's post over a couple of times, I now understand. Those addresses are locations in RAM where the files get stuffe

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-25 Thread Jim Stefanik
now how it goes! Thanks for the help From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jim Stefanik Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 15:02 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install AH HA! I swore I saw that post in

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-25 Thread Jim Stefanik
Mark will see this and chime in? :) Thanks! From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 14:38 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install On 25 May 2017 at 00:43, T

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On 25 May 2017 at 00:43, Tom Brennan wrote: > A bit of a crazy idea, but I've had crazier ones that were implemented: > What if you wrote your own small program, IPLable from DVD or USB (or > whatever is available on the z800), and that program would know (or get) > the subchannel id of your SCSI

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-25 Thread Jim Stefanik
L'ing Linux on Z Install Congrats on the z800! Sounds like a lot of fun. Don't worry about the bad words, I've heard a lot worse I'm sure. A bit of a crazy idea, but I've had crazier ones that were implemented: What if you wrote your own small program, IPLable from DVD or

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-25 Thread Jim Stefanik
no longer available from IBM. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Wolfgang Fritz <016acdc52809-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 02:26 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Fritz
There is no scsi and DVD treiber on sles10 for z/system z800 on z13 and sles12.1 or sles12.2 is scsi and DVD boot available Otherwise you have to boot from ftp server and install it on dasd Have fun Bin unterwegs hab nur iPhone zur Verfügung.😎 > Am 24.05.2017 um 21:43 schrieb Tom Brennan : >

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-24 Thread Tom Brennan
Congrats on the z800! Sounds like a lot of fun. Don't worry about the bad words, I've heard a lot worse I'm sure. A bit of a crazy idea, but I've had crazier ones that were implemented: What if you wrote your own small program, IPLable from DVD or USB (or whatever is available on the z800),

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Fritz
Hi With sles10 there is only dasd for ipl supported Bin unterwegs hab nur iPhone zur Verfügung.😎 > Am 24.05.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Jim Stefanik : > > Hi everyone. I'm newish here...I think I may have posted once before? > Hoping someone here can help me. > > I recently bought myself a z800.

Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-24 Thread Jim Stefanik
Hi everyone. I'm newish here...I think I may have posted once before? Hoping someone here can help me. I recently bought myself a z800. I've got it running and have successfully installed SLES 10 to an FCP-attached RAID array. However, I'm stuck at the same point that Connor Krukosky got st