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sysgen of MVS3.8


 

Reading Jays page about bootstraping MVS and how his handled the
different card decks, is it possible to bootstrap from only one card
reader, the 3505 one on localhost ?
and so use nc localhost < inspool0.job
Instead of the four 1441 devices ?

ie to emulate as far as possible the feel of running a machine with one
or two card readers, a punch, two tapes and a bunch of 3350 disks.


 

IPL reads 24 bytes from three 80 byte cards

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 9:42 AM Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund@...> wrote:

Reading Jays page about bootstraping MVS and how his handled the
different card decks, is it possible to bootstrap from only one card
reader, the 3505 one on localhost ?
and so use nc localhost < inspool0.job
Instead of the four 1441 devices ?

ie to emulate as far as possible the feel of running a machine with one
or two card readers, a punch, two tapes and a bunch of 3350 disks.





--
Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?


 

tor 2022-09-08 klockan 13:25 +0200 skrev Stefan Skoglund:
Reading Jays page about bootstraping MVS and how his handled the
different card decks, is it possible to bootstrap from? only one card
reader, the 3505 one on localhost ?
and so use nc localhost < inspool0.job
Instead of the four 1441 devices ?

ie to emulate as far as possible the feel of running a machine with
one
or two card readers, a punch, two tapes and a bunch of 3350 disks.
Answers to myself (maybe) : do the prepackaged mvs in the install tapes
know how to speak to the 3505's internal controller ?


 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Stefan
Skoglund
Sent: 08 September 2022 20:18
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H390-MVS] sysgen of MVS3.8

tor 2022-09-08 klockan 13:25 +0200 skrev Stefan Skoglund:
Reading Jays page about bootstraping MVS and how his handled the
different card decks, is it possible to bootstrap from only one card
reader, the 3505 one on localhost ?
and so use nc localhost < inspool0.job Instead of the four 1441
devices ?

ie to emulate as far as possible the feel of running a machine with
one or two card readers, a punch, two tapes and a bunch of 3350 disks.
Answers to myself (maybe) : do the prepackaged mvs in the install tapes know
how to speak to the 3505's internal controller ?
Stefan,
Does the device ever speak to the controller? Normally IO only speaks to a device, and the SIO and CCWs are pretty much standard across devices.
I would be very surprised if the device type matters.
Dave







 

Nope.

The tapes that are used for the SYSGEN are IPL'able.

Joe

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 2:18 PM Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund@...> wrote:
tor 2022-09-08 klockan 13:25 +0200 skrev Stefan Skoglund:
> Reading Jays page about bootstraping MVS and how his handled the
> different card decks, is it possible to bootstrap from? only one card
> reader, the 3505 one on localhost ?
> and so use nc localhost < inspool0.job
> Instead of the four 1441 devices ?
>
> ie to emulate as far as possible the feel of running a machine with
> one
> or two card readers, a punch, two tapes and a bunch of 3350 disks.

Answers to myself (maybe) : do the prepackaged mvs in the install tapes
know how to speak to the 3505's internal controller ?