Re: Installing taroon under VM

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:36, Jim Sibley wrote:
> This bug is especially scary if you try a build in an LPAR instead of under
> VM. For operational reasons, one tends to include more DASD in an LPAR that
> is actually used (like the whole DASD subsystem) and limit the scope of the
> operational system with DASD= and IGNORE_CIO=.

We have talked about this internally ... the benefit of auto-probing is
ease-of-use; the danger is you accidentally overwrite a DASD you didn't
want to ... :)

For my internal work, I require my parm files to have an explicit DASD
parameter ...

> However, the install, if you don't specify DASD will pick the first volume
> it sees.
> 
> Needless to say, I have NOT tried this on any of my LPARs.

The "hey that's not what I expected" drive appearance in disk druid was
sufficient to make me carefully evaluate things ... :)

Brock

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