Hi Sue,
Went back to the customer yesterday and succeeded in installing the 7.0
version of the SuSE Linux through an FENET OSA-Express on the z800.
I'm not sure but I think the problem was that on Friday the Tech partition
(OS/390) held the OSA device online. We tried waiting several minutes
before re-trying the pings but that did not help. After we toggled off/on
(on the HMC) the chpid for this port, the port became available to the
linux partition.
Thanks very much for your quick answer. It re-assured us that 7.0 was
installable on z800.
Jean-Pierre Baril
Specialiste en technologies de l'information/IT Specialist
Novipro Inc / 2055, rue Peel, bureau 701
Montreal (Quebec) H3A 1V4
Tel: (514) 744-5353 #244, Cel: (514) 891-6848, Fax: (514) 744-3908
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2002-09-01 21:26
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Subject: Re: OSA-E problem with SuSE 7.0 CD on z800
Jean-Pierre, I have been able to install Suse Linux 7.0, and 7.2 on a
z/800
using an OSA Gigabit card. I found out during my installs ( of the 7.0
system)
that there needs to be a small wait for the OSA card to kind of "wake up".
After the install dialog does the 3 pings and fails, let it wait a little
bit
(I discovered this by accident when I got called away to answer a
question),
then when it asks you if you want to retry, reply yes. At this point, the
retry on my machine was successful. I am however having another problem. I
cannot get the 7.0 system to shutdown cleanly, or to consistently start up
correctly. I usually have to issue the insmod commands for qdio/qeth
manually
followed by several other network related start commands. I don't seem to
have
any of these problems with the Suse 7.2 system.
Sue
Jean-Pierre Baril wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have successfully installed SuSE Linux 7.0 several times on MP3000
> through the PCI Ethernet cards.
>
> I'm now trying to install from the same CDs on an z800 with OSA-Express
> Fast Ethernet ports. I get to the point when the three sets of pings are
> being done. The first set, i.e. to itself, works fine but the second set
> of pings to the Gateway cannot find this Gateway.
>
> As anyone been able to do such an install? At this moment, I believe it
> must be a problem with LCS.O not knowing how to support the new
> OSA-Express card coming in the zSeries z900 and/or z800.
>
> As an alternate question, is there a procedure I could use to produce a
> bootable CD from the Beta 7.2 directories already downloaded to my
server?
>
> It would be nice to build a bootable CD (to be used in the HMC) like the
> CD #1 from the 7.0 copy. My suspicion is that the copy of LCS.O coming
> with 7.2 should know about zSeries processors and their OSA-Express
cards.
>
> Thanks very much and all my best regards.
>
> Jean-Pierre Baril
> Specialiste en technologies de l'information/IT Specialist
> Novipro Inc / 2055, rue Peel, bureau 701
> Montreal (Quebec) H3A 1V4
> Tel: (514) 744-5353 #244, Cel: (514) 891-6848, Fax: (514) 744-3908
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.novipro.com
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