If you got the CDs from SuSE for the $500, then you have a 30 day maintenance agreement. If you're trying to do this with the downloaded betas, you're on your own. Same with RH.
The current Debian 3.x release has all the stable maintenance available already applied, but that's not what you were asking. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > James Melin > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DASDFMT hangs after saying it has finished.... > > > Okay... How does one do this for a 'from scratch' system, > with the install > media as supplied by the vendor for an evaluation...... This > is the loaded > from HMC cdrom drive ram disk install system. > > I also got a CD of maintenance with this but I have no idea > how to build a > workable install image CD for Linux 390 and I cannot load > from FTP as our > HMC is not attatched to our internal network. This was for an > evaluation of > SuSE vs RedHat so we could actually pick a flavor and go. We have no > support as yet... as we're trying to compare. > > > > > |---------+-----------------------------------> > | | "Ferguson, Neale" | > | | <Neale.Ferguson@Software| > | | AG-USA.com> | > | | Sent by: Linux on 390 | > | | Port | > | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| > | | > | > | | | > | | | > | | 01/15/2003 08:37 AM | > | | Please respond to Linux | > | | on 390 Port | > | | | > |---------+-----------------------------------> > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -----------------------------------------------------------------| > | > | > | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | cc: > | > | Subject: Re: DASDFMT hangs after saying it has > finished.... > | > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -----------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > The original SLES7 kernel had a bug that caused the dasdfmt > hang on large > devices. You need to update the kernel. If you have a support > contract with > SuSE you should be able to get a new k_deflt.rpm from them. Otherwise > you'll > need to apply the 2.4.7 patches on Developerworks to your > source and build > your own kernel. >
