Ok, well I guess I've got a problem then. Once I've booted the system from the reader I go to VNC web and use YaST. I make it through all of the dasd allocations and formatting and YaST successfully installs sles9/CD1 and begins to install core9/CD1. It normally gets through about 20% of that CD when I get the following error
Err: 11264: ERROR(Media:error) And it says something like "xxxxxx not found on media" where xxxxxx equals a different RPM almost every time. It might be "xfsprogs" one time and then "busybox" the next time etc. Sometimes it finds an RPM and sometimes it doesn't but it always fails. I've done MD5SUM for each of the CD's and they all check out fine. The only difference that I see is that I've copied the isos to a Debian instance. I still mount them using mkinstallroot script written by -Mike MacIsaac, IBM. I'll also say that I'm using the s390x RPM's for 64 bit z/VM. I'm at a loss... Tried everything that I can think of. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation Yes, we've successfully installed SLES9 on z/VM 5.1. Mounted the .iso files on a SLES8 FTP server in the manner outlined in the release notes. Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Suse 9.0 installation So, have you successfully installed SLES9 on z/VM 5.1??? Actually, has anyone successfully installed SLES8 or SLES9 on z/VM 5.1? The reason that I ask is I can install SLES8 on our z/VM 3.1 system and then move it over to our 5.1 system and boot it up but I've yet to successfully install a new instance (SLES8 or SLES9) on our 5.1 system. It just looks like Dave is having the same problem as I did and I used a script that is almost identical to the mkinstallroot script mentioned here and it didn't work either. I was really starting to think that it was a 5.1 problem... Mark Wiggins University of Connecticut Operating Systems Programmer 860-486-2792 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation I know that this is late in the game, but the mkinstallroot script (supplied by Mark Post I believe) that was posted here worked great for me. If you are going to install SLES9 it would be worth the effort to search the archives, and implement. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation 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 Herczeg, Zoltan wrote: > I can feel your pain. I ordered the SuSE sles9 evaluation and > installed it via ftp from my windows desktop using war ftp server. It > took me days just to get the ftp server set up properly for the > initial install. Now after redoing things so many times and working > with SuSE support on why my nic cards don't activate when linux boots > a month has gone by and I have nothing to show for it. I am running > MP3000, lpar with the nics on the MP3000. > > Zoltan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom Duerbusch > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Dave Jones Houston, TX 281.578.7544 (speaking for myself only) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
