Re: configure alternate installation device

[Kirk Goins <kgoins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, the alternate installation device is a "device" (typically a 
tape) not on the first I/O bus of the system, so the base CD isn't that.

Now somewhere along the line IBM decided to somehow remember where the 
system was reloaded from last time. I have had a systems sit there for 
up to 45 minutes looking for a darn tape drive before it used the CD.

So try this... Start your "D" IPL and go to lunch. If it hasn't used the 
CD in an hour... maybe the CD is broke

Steve Richter wrote:
> I have a 170 that I bought from IBM/ebay.
>
> When I try to ipl from "d", that is the cd rom drive, the ipl fails because
> the system cannot find the tape drive. But I dont have a tape drive, only an
> optical drive. ( turns out I dont have to reinstall the os, but anyway ... )
>
> So now I am trying to change the alternate installation device to the
> optical drive ( OPT01 ).
>
> I do a manual ipl, get to the dst menu, signon as qsecofr, take the option
> to work with system devices.
>
> I run option 4. optical and the system shows the optical device. ( and the
> cd drive works.  I used it after completing the ipl. )
>
> Then option 5. Alternate installation device.  The panel displays:
>      "(No alternate installation device configured)"
>
> I dont see an f6=add or any way to add/config an alternate installation
> device.
>
> How do I add an alternate installation device on a model 170?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Steve Richter
>
>
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