On Friday, 01/20/2006 at 11:02 EST, "James G. Stracka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the z/VM 5.2.0 installation I shall be doing it 2nd level. I want > to use a 3390-9 for the Res volume and would like to use a 50 cylinder > volume for the PAGE pack and a 1000 cylinder volume for the SPOOL pack. > > Will a 50 cylinder and 1000 cylinder volumes do for the installation > or must those two be full 3390-3 for the installation then moved later?
You must supply the volumes indicated for installation. You can move them later. > Since 5.1.0 and I assume 5.2.0 does not need to page, it would be nice > if the paging volume could be optionally skipped at installation. Not need to page? Eh? Who says? VM needs to page the instant virtual machine memory plus memory used by CP exceeds the size of the LPAR. The point of making each a 3390-3 was to answer the numerous complaints about the spooling/paging volumes being too small to really start using VM. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
