Thanks for all the pointers to what I was missing, Les, Mark and Rob. I just had to give the installation process the relative path to where I had mounted the CD iso images, and all worked as designed. The path, btw, is relative to the FTP logon user id, so you just need to specify how to reach the CD directory form where ever FTP puts you at logon time.
During the install process, you will be prompted to "mount" the next CD; there is field in the prompt that allows you to specify the path the the required CD. I'm using this approach and not the (intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, of course!) method of creating a specific directory structure and then copying CD2 into the directory for CD1.....:-)
DJ
P.S. Isn't the just the greatest list or what? I asked an obscure question late on a Saturday night and had three responses, all correct, by Sunday morning.......thanks a bunch to all. :-)
Lee Stewart wrote:
1. Note in the release notes that you have to setup a special directory tree structure to hold the contents of all six CDs at once... (with some extra links)
2. Also note that supposedly the install process can only successfully handle "relative paths". So if your special directory tree starts at /sles9, then you have to specify it as ../../sles9 (or whatever is appropriate for your setup)...
Lee
From years ago over the machine room job submittal/printout pickup window: Data Processing Department -- Jobs lost, output misfiled, information made complicated -- while you wait
At 09:04 PM 1/8/2005, you wrote:
I can add my experiences trying to install SLES9 on a z/VM 5.1 system...and none of them are good.
My installation server is an Intel box, running SuSE SLES9. The Intel box has a great deal of disk storage available, so I just put the 6 .iso files onto the server. I just do a simple mount -o loop -t iso9660 to make the cd images available. So far, so good.
After booting the initial SLES9 install VM kernel and ram disk, in a 512M virtual machine and getting the networking setup and working (eth0 on a QDIO gLAN) without too much difficulty, I choose SSH and FTP for performing the basic installation, and I specify location of the install media as /CD1 (where I have mounted the CD1.iso file). I then log on, using SSH and start yast. After successfully creating the dasd partitions and making the mount points, yast reports the following error:
Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error?
On the Intel SLES9 server, I can navigate and view the files on /CD1, and they all appear OK. Anybody got a clue as to what's wrong?
TIA.
DJ
-- Dave Jones Houston, TX 281.578.7544 (speaking for myself only)
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