Thanks guys it works now. Lessons from the experience: 1. Just because you can get stuff from the Novell FTP server doesn't mean that you should. Use the publically available downloads. 2. Give your Hercules machine at least 512 MB, preferably 1GB. I was initially using a 256MB machine and it was painfully slow, eg. 30-40 minutes between installation panels. 3. Don't use anything but a 3390-3 for the installation disks. I tried a 3390-9 and dasdfmt said that it was formatting 999999999 cylinders. After the installation, I have been able to add 3390-9 disks.
I cannot get LVM to work at all. It's still very slow compared to other operating systems running on the same Hercules installation but part of this could be because I am using NFS to access the disks. Perhaps there are some tuning knobs that I can tweak. Suse is constantly hitting the drives and spinning the (emulated) CPU. Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.12/462 - Release Date: 10/3/2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
