7.1 will not install from VIOS Media Library (Virtual SCSI CD/DVD) ?

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I have this .iso loaded into my VIOS media library:
rhel-for-ibm-power-le-7.1-ppc64le-boot.iso

I am able to boot to SMS, select the boot media CD/DVD and begin the installation.

So far so good.

Our VIOS media library is solid as we load other OS's from here (IBM i, Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu 18.04)

Now when booting from this image, I am stepping through the text based installer from HMC console vterm window. 3) Installation source is giving met fits. Always says (Processing...) I select CD/DVD. Then 3) tells me (Error setting up your software source). A refresh doesn't help. Since I cannot complete all spokes, I'm stuck.

How can I get this installation source to work ?

JW
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JW Newbie 10 points
9 May 2018 6:43 PM

James Nauer reported this and is most likely my issue:

The solution has been given above, though perhaps we need to be a bit more clear:

You CANNOT use "rhel-server-7.2-x86_64-boot.iso" for your first RHEL install. The "boot.iso" image requires a access to a network install repository, but RHEL is not a "free" product, so there are no publicly-available repositories for it on the internet. (very different from Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.).

You must download the full 3-4 GB binary dvd .iso file ("rhel-server-7.5-x86_64-dvd.iso" is the current version today - older 7.x releases should still be available though), and use that to install your first system.

Once you have your first Linux system up & running, you can use the full install DVD image again to build your own local network repository, and then use "boot.iso" for subsequent installs (or set up a PXE boot server, or clone a master VM template image, or...)

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