It still doesn't work, but with the new zipl-installer.postinst it comes a lot closer.
netcfg (actually netcfg-static) still doesn't work the first time. What you have to do is to select IUCV, which generates an error, and then go back in from the main menu, select option #3 (network config), and everything works fine the second time. The symptoms are as follows: whatever you enter is sort of recognized--that is, if you choose CTC and you don't have any CTC devices in your configuration, you're told so. But if you do choose the interface type you have (qeth, in my case), the installer simply asks you to choose an interface type again. I have no idea why this is. I've looked through s390/netdevice and I'm not seeing the problem. I'm going to try to add IUCV support soon, because that should be pretty straightforward. Once you've gotten past the network device configuration, everything goes smoothly up until "Make System Bootable". At this point, the stock install fails, because of a missing symlink for /vmlinuz. The patch I just posted for zipl-installer.postinst fixes this and adds a correct parmline for the DASD configuration. Installing this could in theory be done from the 3270 console. I find that a huge pain, so I've been doing a chroot to /target, removing /etc/securetty, and enabling inetd, so I have a smarter terminal to work with. Then I can telnet to the chroot'ed /target, use cat and ^D to copy zipl-installer.postinst to /tmp, and then, from the console, cp /target/tmp/zipl* /var/lib/dpkg/info chmod 755 /var/lib/dpkg/info/zipl* Rebooting the system from the installer doesn't work. Woody just ran /sbin/halt and advised the user to IPL from the root DASD device; I think a similar trick will be needed for Sarge. The problem with reboot is that it, in the S/390 world, attempts to boot from the last device you IPLed from, which will be either the card deck or the tape drive, rather than your new root disk. After that, the next problem is that base-config tries to run on the console. Since the 3270 is a line-mode EBCIDC terminal that does not understand ANSI terminal codes, this fails messily. The workaround is to replace /etc/inittab with /etc/inittab.real. Then run /sbin/halt, and, from the console, IPL from your root device. Remember that you will have inetd running and a root telnet session will be enabled. Then telnet in as root (it'll be nice when we have sshd on the install system), and run base-config from your telnet session. After that everything goes smoothly again. Once it's done and you've installed sshd, put /etc/securetty back and disable telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
