Did you read the RELEASE-NOTES.en.html in the /docu directory on CD1? This documents what needs to be done to set up an "installation server."
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linux install via NFS Well, great progress. Via NFS, I loaded the RAM drive for the installation and loaded the contents of CD1. However, I couldn't do anything with CD2. I got the message to load CD 2 On the Linux laptop, I "umount" the device. Put the next CD in and "mount" the device. Responded to the CD switch message. I got "something not found" (I forget if it initially said "directory not found" or "file not found"). I clicked on "details" and the path was "/media/cdrecorder/" I'ved tried adding on "suse" subdirectory as well as "s390" subdirectory. Couldn't get past this point. I burned another CD2 (which is CD1 of Suse with the first CD being CD1 SLES) and got the same thing. So, what is the trick? BTW, as a side note, my consoles are via Dialup. Ever try using ssh over dialup? Half hour for a full screen update. I went to a Windows PC and dialed in and used tightvnc. What a difference! When I'm at the office, you don't really see much a difference in local performance. But dial up shows a lot of things. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (will never use yast over ssh over dialup again, if it is within my power not too) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom >Duerbusch >Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:03 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Linux install via NFS > > >Slowly I'm moving to the modern world, that is one without Windows. > >Historically, I've installed Suse (7.3 and 8.0) using SMB from >Windows/2000. That still works. But there seems to be a problem with >the current Suse 9.0. I've opened a support issue, but it seems to be >paced at one email exchange a day. Kind of slow process. > >So, it is time to use a different install process. Like NFS. > >Initially, I was trying to setup an install where I used the CD drive on >my Suse 9.0 laptop as the installation source. When I was at work, and >on the local network, the installation would accept the node (PC) as the >source, but I couldn't figure out what "directory" it was looking for. > >On the laptop, the CD drive is /media/cdrecorder and I think the install >directory on the CD is /suse/s390. But the install process kept saying >that it didn't have permissions. I had read and write specified for the >CD for all three types of users (I believe that is called 666...right?) > >But now, I'm working from home over the holidays. I have a static IP >address that I can ping to from the mainframe. > >I seem to have the PC setup as a valid NFS server. I have a desktop >(Suse 8.0) that can mount the share on the laptop without any problem >(but all from within my firewall). > >So I tried, from a Suse 8.0 image that I have running under VM to get my >NFS share. I couldn't. I can ping, but couldn't get the share (no >permissions). I disabled everything on my firewall (a 2Wire firewall) >and get the same problem. > >Friday, I'll try to install vial NFS, but I expect the same problem. (I >punch the install files to the rdr and the files currently exist up in CMS.) > >I think everything should be straight forward, but since I'm facing the >holidays and some of the knowledge base may not be online, I thought I >better check to see if there are any "tricks" that are not intuitive to >me at this point. > >Merry Christmas (or comparable greeting for your belief) >Tom Duerbusch > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
