RE: swing optical device between LPARs?

["Lindstrom, Scott R." <slindstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I didn't know that the file in an image catalog was just any old iso file.

I have converted the CD to an iso image and have FTPed the file up to the AS400.  I am going to try an create an image catalog from it now.

Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Goins
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: swing optical device between LPARs?

Really don't hink you can do it on a 810 or V5R4 using the Internal DVD.
You would need an External DVD on it's own card and that card could be
moved between partitions.

A work around would be image catalogs. I would Create the needed Image
catalogs in the primary, FTP them to the other partitions etc or create
.iso images of the DVDs and place those in the required partitions and
create and use image catalogs.


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Lindstrom, Scott R.
<slindstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have a 9406-810 (running V5R4 and Ops Console) with a primary partition
> and one secondary partition.  The optical device is allocated to the
> primary partition.
>
> Is there a way to dynamically swing this device from one partition to the
> other?  We have some software to install on both partitions that came on
> DVD.
>
> I found this post but that requires V6R1:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201008/msg00466.html
>
> and this one but it  references using an HMC which we don't have:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201007/msg00288.html
>
> and this one which sounds like it's possible but I don't understand what
> the steps would be within SST:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200806/msg01038.html
>
> Any thoughts/guidance would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Scott
>
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