zVM 5.1 installing to ECKD minidisk. We had a similar error on the VDISK swap 
and this is FBA but we think we should be able to run the install without swap 
and then resolve the FBA problem later.

Al Schilla
Systems Programmer 
Enterprise Technology Services
Office of Enterprise Technology
phone: 651-201-1216
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Ihno Krumreich
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SLES10 Install


hi,

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:10:34PM -0500, Alan Schilla wrote:
> We are trying the install of sles10 and get the boot loader and thru the 
> network config to the FTP server for installation. We connect to the new 
> guest via cygwin and ssh. We start the configuration of the disk partitions 
> and select software and when we continue to where the install process would 
> generally format the dasd we receive the following messages:
> 
> Failure occurred during following action:
> Executing fdasd for disk /dev/dasdb...
> 
> System error code was: -11001
> 
> /sbin/fdasd -c /tmp/liby2storageIT5Z1N/fdasd_inp /dev/dasdb:
> 
> fdasd error: Unsupported disk format
> /dev/dasdb is not formatted with z/OS compatible disk layout

I assume you install under z/VM.

What type of disk is that (minidisk,FBA,VDSK,real DASD)?

Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Ihno Krumreich

"Never trust a computer you can lift."
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