Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-05 Thread Maciej Ksiezycki
Adam, Mark Post and Jochen - thank you for your replies. For my unsuccesful attempts I used a .ins file created by myself and I didn't know that the filenames might not be too long. When I used the original .ins file from the Debian CD and changed the filenames according to it, the installation

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:39:40PM +0100, Maciej Ksiezycki wrote: Is it so because I didn't load the oco.bin file ? I tried to find it on the net but it was nowhere to be found.My distribution doesn't have it either... In the Debian CVS repository, there is a script by Stefan Gybas which will

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-05 Thread Jochen Röhrig
Maciek, When I used the original .ins file from the Debian CD and changed the filenames according to it, the installation went smoothly until the first IPL. After the IPL I get a message from modprobe: can't locate module eth0. I am using OSA-2. Is it so because I didn't load the oco.bin

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-05 Thread Post, Mark K
files, do the copy, chroot to the root file system, re-run depmod, exit, and re-IPL from DASD. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Maciej Ksiezycki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian install problem Adam, Mark Post

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-05 Thread Stefan Gybas
Post, Mark K wrote: I haven't gone through a Debian/390 install with OCO modules, but I would think that at some point you would need to copy the OCO module from the ramdisk to your /lib/modules tree so that the installed system could access it after the IPL. This is done by Debian's installer

Debian install problem

2003-02-04 Thread Maciej Ksiezycki
Trying to install Debian on my RA6 (G5) I have encountered on some problems et the very beginning. I want to run it on an LPAR (SuSE works perfectly this way). I prepared a CD to use it on my HMC with just 4 files: kernel.debian parmfile.debian initrd.debian debian.ins Everytime I try to load the

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:28:42PM +0100, Maciej Ksiezycki wrote: Trying to install Debian on my RA6 (G5) I have encountered on some problems et the very beginning. I want to run it on an LPAR (SuSE works perfectly this way). I prepared a CD to use it on my HMC with just 4 files:

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-04 Thread Jochen Röhrig
Maciek, I prepared a CD to use it on my HMC with just 4 files: kernel.debian parmfile.debian initrd.debian debian.ins What are the contents of your debian.ins-file? The filenames must match the names of your kernel-, parmfile- and initrd-file, respectivly. However, if I remember correctly,

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-04 Thread Post, Mark K
, since I don't know what values should go into that file. For that matter, what _is_ in the debian.ins file? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian install problem