Suse forum for system Z. I’m looking to install SLES9 on a 7060-H30 (its a s/390 machine that pre-dates Z series) it is a 31-bit machine.
I’m looking for the old SLES9 installation media/iso.
Can anyone assist?
Hi and welcome to the Forum 
What service pack?
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP1 for IBM zSeries”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=ioELEBPtHsM~
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP2 For IBM zSeries”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=j10PAiOBl3o~
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP3 for IBM zSeries”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=Qs-h3sLYYk4~
“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4 for IBM zSeries”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=w04AIKEeQgU~
Hi again
These ones are for just the S390, which may be the ones your after;
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP1 for IBM s390”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=5s4IF27PZ60~
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP2 For IBM s390”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=LYTKmT5GFk0~
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP3 For IBM s390”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=4jEwx5s8hy8~
“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4 for IBM s390”
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=AdIjPtbH8AA~
Thanks.
is there also an original SLES9 (before SP1)?
“SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM s390” (from back in like 2004 or so?)
which I’ll need which has all the originally released product?
SLES-9-s390-RC5a-CD1.iso 4f5ca784a148ac0431ee18cd9c7840ce 305.6 MB
SLES-9-s390-RC5-CD2.iso b7f95b81510dfd527579b184baee5d30 516.6 MB
SLES-9-s390-RC5-CD3.iso 21d3e2eb32aa83bb0ddad1f08526d37f 417.5 MB
SLES-9-s390-RC5-CD4.iso 849936436e1fdd351df6403dbf5d7e2d 475.2 MB
SLES-9-s390-RC5-CD5.iso 7655c5871fae2915efe9644d211041e4 648.5 MB
SLES-9-s390-RC5-CD6.iso 11bb0fcd7e82a07b7ab2878708478768 633.8 MB
ref: https://www.novell.com/documentation/zlm/esd/di_sles9-zlm66_ibm-zseries-s390.html
Hello asysad,
Wow, a fan
Let me see if I can still find this somewhere internally.
Thanks a lot !
Hans
thanks Hans!
Hello aysad,
You can download the ISO’s from here :
ftp://support-ftp.suse.com/out/SLES9-s390.tar.gz
I would not wait too long with that, otherwise a clean-up policy on our FTP server may delete this again 
Enjoy !!
Hans
PS: Malcolm, thanks a lot for pointing this out !
received successfully. Thanks to all!
For what it is worth, I too downloaded it and calculated the following
md5sum, just for comparison purposes:
dc010329631b7d68ae2315f9d2ad2a54
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installed and running.
IPL’d off of SP4 CD1 from support element, used basic installer in Operating System messages, pointed to NFS Installation source on another PC Linux created with this basic method: https://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15522.html
YaST wanted both SP4 CD1&2 as well as the original CD1 for some things (it might have gone to the original CD2 also, I can’t recall). Anyhow, what is installed now is essentially SP4 in minimal configuration.
Thanks again all for your help!
just to be clear, this was for test/evaluation/proof-of-concept/procedure development purposes. I have de-installed the software as per the SuSE’s Intellectual Property license and will pursue a full purchase of the product from sales if I intend to run it for a longer duration at some point.
Again, thanks to all for your collective assistance. I’m planning to write up all the details of the procedure developed bare metal → SLES9 login if anyone is interested.
asysad Wrote in message:
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just to be clear, this was for
test/evaluation/proof-of-concept/procedure development purposes. I have
de-installed the software as per the SuSE’s Intellectual Property
license and will pursue a full purchase of the product from sales if I
intend to run it for a longer duration at some point.[/color]
I’ll be surprised if SUSE will/can sell you a license for an old,
unsupported release of SLES9.
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Again, thanks to all for your collective assistance. I’m planning to
write up all the details of the procedure developed bare metal → SLES9
login if anyone is interested.[/color]
I’d certainly be interested. In the past I would have suggested
submitting it as a Cool Solutions article but SUSE don’t
currently award credits for their equivalent communities
site.
HTH.
Simon Flood
SUSE Knowledge Partner
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On 26/06/18 13:55, ab wrote:
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For what it is worth, I too downloaded it and calculated the following
md5sum, just for comparison purposes:dc010329631b7d68ae2315f9d2ad2a54[/color]
Snap! I also get
dc010329631b7d68ae2315f9d2ad2a54
as the MD5 checksum.
For completeness I also generated SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
SHA1: 11e6a3118587b07e3dafc5525938bdb1bfc15b16
SHA256: 6ff8e5c39061b5d7417b31a3ff57a8c6d6b4dbe01d07ea2e6d3f31957a93683b
Given that we’re generating these checksums (as opposed to being
officially published by SUSE) I’d be more inclined to check that the MD5
checksums of the individual files within the archive match those which
were noted and linked to[1] in the asysad’s edited web post[2]. Which
they do!
HTH.
[1]
https://www.novell.com/documentation/zlm/esd/di_sles9-zlm66_ibm-zseries-s390.html
[2]
https://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?12251-looking-for-installation-media-for-SLES9-s-390-(31-bit)&p=53151#post53151
Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner