Depending on the missing Parameter, you may then get prompted for many more parms. I believe that the offending parm was PortNum or Macaddress.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Bhemidhi, Ashwin <[email protected]> wrote: > I did encounter similar problem installing RedHat Linux 5.4. The installer > was not reading the Conf/PARM(?) file and was prompting for the values to be > entered. The installer bug, apparently, shows up when the guest had only one > virtual CPU defined and the work around, at least for me, was to define 2 > virtual CPUs just for the installation. If this work around solves your > issue then do remember to take off unnecessary virtual CPU after the > installation/upgrade. > > Regards, > Ashwin Bhemidhi > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom Duggan > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SLES11 PARMFILE entries not being read correctly > > I'm posting here since the initial execution of the SLES 11 upgrade happe= > ns > in a z/VM virtual machine prior to establishing a Linux session. > > Apologies if this is inappropriate; I will post to the > Linux 390 list if needed (I'm having major difficulties posting to ANY > list, so I'm not even going to attempt cross/multiple postings <g>) > > So, on to the issue....... > > I saw in an earlier post(sometime last year) someone having a *similar* > problem as I am : > > The user was supplying values for Portname and NameServer, but still gett= > ing > prompts during the install. > > The response to the user was to supply a null value in the PARMFILE for t= > he > two parameters in question, and to supply "0" (or "1" depending on the > configuration of the card) for Portno= as this could possibly suppress = > the > prompt for the DNS server. > > My issue is that I'm supplying a null value for portname as it is not > defined on the card, and I am supplying an address for NameServer and sti= > ll > receiving prompts. > > I'm reading through Section 4.4 The parmfile - Automating the System > Configuration in the SLES 11 Deployment Guide, and not seeing anything ab= > out > how to supply null values. > > This isn't a show-stopper, but I'm looking to completely automate this > portion of the SLES 11 install. If it doesn't happen, c'est le vie..... > > Thanks! > > -Tom > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
