(Sorry, forget about "spooling your console" and "running disconnected" - you're running in an LPAR! Gotta go get some coffee......). Check the hardware console instead.
Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room�6030 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.� 20224 Voice: (202)�927-4188�� FAX:� (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Coffin Michael C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: format dasd install suse Even if you're only getting the left over cycles in your LPAR, that 2Gig format should have finished a long time ago (probably less than an hour to format that disk). Go to the virtual machine console for your Linux390 machine and see if there are any errors being reported. If you are running disconnected, spool your console and close it so that you can see any errors (suggest you keep the console open until your system is built, some messages will only appear on the system console and the telnet session running YaST will show you nothing). Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room�6030 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.� 20224 Voice: (202)�927-4188�� FAX:� (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Hall, Jammie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: format dasd install suse New to Linux s/390. Installing SuSE 7.3. I have downloaded the proper files tapeipl.img, parmfile, initrd and put on tape. I have started the boot from tape process and finally got to the format DASD step. I have 2GB DASD to format and it has been running since 11:30 1/16. Taking 5-10% CPU. CPU 2003-135 allocated 1CPU and 48 mb to this LPAR. How will this format process last? Is there a way I can tell what, if anything, is going on from the console? I have a #: so I know I can enter a command. Just not sure what command.
