Thanks, but you can't run dasdfmt command against an FBA device. Also, the "insmod dasd_mod dasd=0200-0204" partitions the disks. I could run fdisk against them to partition them and then mke2fs.
Ok, tried that too and that didn't work either. Again my question falls back to "can you put the base system on 9336 emulated devices"? These troubles lead me to think not... -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Farmer Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? It has been awhile but I remember that I had to format it using dasdfmt and then mkefs before YAST would allow me to create mountpoints for the disk. I had to do this even though it was formatted it by CMS Michael S Farmer Systems Programmer AAA of Missouri 314-523-7350 "Wiggins, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] nn.edu> To Sent by: Linux on [email protected] 390 Port cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Subject Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? 06/30/2005 01:58 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Anyone else out there have any ideas??? Mark Wiggins -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? **slam** Chris hitting the knowledge barrier. It hurts when that happens. -----Original Message----- From: Wiggins, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? Did you see that they are 9336 FBA devices? I wouldn't think that they would show up on this screen because they're not ECKD devices, but when I do enter in the dasd= parameter in yast, they still don't show up. Clicking on the "accept" button does nothing so my only alternative at this point is to click on the "abort" button. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? On the yast screen, enter "dasd=xxxx-xxxx" etc. then click accept. they should pop up. -----Original Message----- From: Wiggins, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? Well, that at least created /proc/dasd/devices and an lsmod command shows that all of the appropriate modules are loaded, yet I still get the "YAST2 - DASD Module Parameter Setting" screen to which I have to "abort" out of and receive an error suggesting that "there are no DASD devices active". This then takes me to the "Installation Settings" screen where the "Software" screen with "not enough disk space", etc... Mark Wiggins -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? my usual pattern is thus insmod dasd_mod "dasd=xxxx-xxxx" insmod dasd_eckd etc. then run the install. -----Original Message----- From: Wiggins, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? Ok, I insmod dasd_mod, dasd_eckd_mod, dasd_diag_mod and dasd_fba_mod. Then I run "modprobe dasd_mod dasd=0200-0204,0222". I get nothing back and /proc/dasd/devices does not get updated. I end up in the small spot. Am I missing an appropriate mod or is my modprobe command incomplete? -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? Known bug with SLES 8. open a ssh session and manually insmod the dasd modules and device parameters before beginning the installation. -----Original Message----- From: Wiggins, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Am I missing something in SLES8 install? We have a need to install SLES8 as opposed to SLES9 like we normally do, so this is my first attempt at a SLES8 install. When I get to the "YAST2 - DASD Module Parameter Settings" screen, I enter "dasd=0200-0204,0222" and click on the "Load Module" button. We're using 9336 emulated FBA devices which I CMS formatted. From the VM console I can see where /proc/dasd/devices is set up and each device is allocated to a device letter (e.g. /dev/dasda, /dev/dasdb, etc). At this point I have to "Abort" from the "DASD Module screen", I'm assuming because I don't have any ECKD devices, only FBA devices??? Anyway, this then takes me to the "Installation Settings" screen where I'm able to set up the partitioning of all of my disk. This is where the real problem starts. In SLES9 after I set up all of my partitioning and exit the "YAST2 - Partitioner" screen, the "Software" screen knows what I've just done and allows me to choose what software I want based on how much space I have just allocated. In SLES8, this doesn't happen and the "YAST2 - Software" screen shows "NOT ENOUGH DISK SPACE EVEN FOR A MINIMAL INSTALLATION". What am I doing wrong? Can I not install the base SLES8 system on 9336 devices? 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