OK. I'm not sure if this will help but I ran into a problem installing SUSE 9 under zVM 5.1. Could not get the dasd to partition. Or it seemed to partition but couldn't use it, it's been a while. Anyway, the way I got around it was to format the disks in CMS first, then start the install. The system then formatted them correctly and I was able to complete the install without any more problems.
Strange but true. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? > I only use 3390-3 emulated DASD on Hercules. Who knows, some day I might > actually be able to get a z/Linux system on my work zSeries machine. It > would be "nice" to just backup my Hercules disk images in some manner > which would allow them to be restored on real zSeries DASD and IPL'ed. > Again, I'm weird. Hmm perhaps SUSE s390 has a problem with a 3390-9 (> 2GB?). Seems odd but I'll try it again. On my last try, I looked around before starting yast. I found fdasd and I used it to create my partitions, eg fdasd /dev/dasda fdasd /dev/dasdb I then started the yast install procedure. The System Information section found my drives as usual and also showed the partitions. But when I got to the actual install, it still insisted that it could not create a partition proposal and when I opened up the partitioning section, my partitions were not there. Perhaps a clue. Anyway I'll try with a smaller system DASD and see what happens. Once I get this to work, I would next like to get LVM to work as well. Thanks for all the help! If I can just get past this point, I think I will have it installed. Centos was nice but neither Oracle nor DB2 install on it. BTW are you running S390 or S390x SUSE? Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
