Re: V6R1M0 isos?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

    You mentioned it's a 520 but not if it's POWER5 or POWER6. This 
booting from NFS business does require POWER6 or newer and that's a hard 
requirement.

    As to the NFS server side I use that constantly for PTFs  but not 
installs yet. For PTFs I can't see why the server couldn't be Linux. The 
shares are just public read box stock NFS stuff. If you can create the 
VOLUME_LIST file by hand (not at all hard) then that seems like it would 
work. Do be certain that Linux isn't set up for Jumbo frames on the 
Ethernet side. For booting up off NFS there are some additional 
requirements so that may actually require an IBM i host.

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 11/28/2011 10:00 PM, Bob Smith wrote:
> In article<mailman.12443.1322059119.2520.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>
> Hi Pete:
>
> The box I have, is a box I got off Ebay - its not in "prod" use. I'm a
> home experimenter...
>
> In the past, I got V5R2, V5R4 images from other people... to learn the
> box with - I'm looking for that now.
>
> Actually, I'm looking for V7R1!
>
> Seems like with that version of software, you can actually IPL the
> machine, from an NFS server!
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>   pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> > It needs to be Power6 or Power7, along with 6.1 or 7.1 of the OS to have IBM I host IBM i.  Why not just go to the ess website and download the images?
> >
> > 	Pete
> >
> > --
> > Pete Massiello
> > iTech Solutions
> > www.itechsol.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bda Priv
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:07 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: V6R1M0 isos?
> >
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone have any V6R1M0 isos available ? I have a 520 at home, I'm playing with LPARS I just discovered one needs V6R1 or something higher, in order to I inside another..
> >
> > Regards
> > Sean