I'm really starting to wonder about Linux. I'm also have been trying to install it and it fails at different points using the exact same setup.
In the mainframe world, when you do the exact same thing, you get the exact same output. Doesn't seem to be true in the Linux case. Why is everyone going to something that is so unreliable?<G> If I didn't already have Suse 7.3 and 8.0 up and running (apparently giving the same results day in and day out), I'm not sure I would trust 9.0 to properly maintain my timesheet! (That is, unless it wants to add charge hours to it<G>) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting At 09:47 AM 1/11/2005, you wrote: >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 Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Enterprise Systems Group (719) 566-0188 , Fax (309) 410-5363 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.siriuscom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
