On 12/15/05, Víctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was reading documentation and you should use the same tape in 2 IPLs for > doing different things. How do they do that? Do they check for the res > volume to be initializated?
The tape is not being rewound after the first IPL of the stand-alone ICKDSF, so next IPL is the starter nucleus. I remember when we tried to IPL Linux from a SL tape, and the operator called and said they tried it twice but it did not work. It took some threats to make them try twice more, and they were amazed it worked (and that I had predicted that). So the IPLs skipped VOL1, HDR1, HDR2 and then they could IPL. > And the other (and most important question): Could I copy the tapes on disk > and do IPL from these disks? > I have problems for reading 3480s in the machine where I'm trying to install > VM. So how would you get the disk over? If you're having shared DASD between the systems you could install VM from the one where you can IPL from tape, and then use the IPL pack on the other system. After you have the starter system I suppose that the install expects the tapes to have the remainder of the data in DDR and/or VMFPLC2 dump format. While you could have the data on disk, it would take a lot of tweaking to change all the code that refers to tapes. There are vendor products that allow you to emulate tapes using disk, but you would still need to get the stuff there... Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com
