It's a whole new (undocumented) ballgame... The prompt you're getting isn't an error; it's the normal flow of things now. After exploring them all, I've found that option 4 (Start Installation or System) is the correct one, followed by selecting Install. Then you start getting prompts that are somewhat familiar.
Again, this seems like change for change's sake. There's no real documentation on what all the other options do, so they aren't very useful. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:33 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES/SLED10 RC Software Available > In case any one here hadn't heard, Novell is offering Release > Candidate versions of SLES10 Thanks Mark. Within IBM, we have the luxury of an internal download server. I got SLES10 RC3 (4 CD isos) but have not been able to get it to install. As a head's up, there are new parmfile parameters (see cd1/docu/en/preparation.pdf for details). Here is what I am using: ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc TERM=dumb Hostname=ny55.pbm.ihost.com HostIP=129.40.49.55 Gateway=129.40.49.254 Nameserver=129.40.106.1 InstNetDev=osa Netmask=255.255.255.0 Layer2=0 Broadcast=129.40.49.255 OsaInterface=eth OsaMedium=qdio ReadChannel=0.0.0600 WriteChannel=0.0.0601 DataChannel=0.0.0602 Portname=dontcare Install=nfs://129.40.45.3/nfs/distros/sles10x/cd1/ UseVNC=1 VNCPassword=123456 I punch to reader, IPL and get out of the gate: Linux version 2.6.16.20-0.12-default ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 22:25:45 UTC 2006 We are running under VM (64 bit mode) ... (a few screens go by) Starting hardware detection... Searching for info file... NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver qdio: loading QDIO base support version 2 qeth: loading qeth S/390 OSA-Express driver IUCV lowlevel driver initialized iucv: NETIUCV driver initialized lcs: Loading LCS driver sit0: Disabled Privacy Extensions But then it just freezes and eventually times out to: *** Could not find the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation Source. Activating manual setup program. >>> Linuxrc v2.0.45 (Kernel 2.6.16.20-0.12-default) <<< Main Menu 1) Settings 2) System Information 3) Kernel Modules (Hardware Drivers) 4) Start Installation or System 5) Verify Installation CD-ROM/DVD 6) Eject CD 7) Exit or Reboot 8) Power off Has anyone seen this? I have tried with 768M of memory so I don't think that is the problem. I know I can mount the NFS share from another Linux. > If Mike MacIsaac comes up with a mksles10root.sh script, > I can do that. :) I just mounted each CD over cd1/, cd2/, etc. I was hoping the script wouldn't be necessary (at least until SP1) It sure would be nice if SuSE included such a script with SP1. > Oh, and when I looked, they were one 5 CDs (iso files), not a single DVD. :(( sigh ... "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
