I'm following along in the "cookbook" on 7.1.5 "Stage 1 of the RHEL 5.2 installation" it states:
Run the RHEL52 EXEC. You should see many windows of questions and answers scrolling by. If you had used the default parameter file shipped with RHEL 5.2, you would have had to answer all the networking questions manually. With the proper parameters set in LNXINST CONF-RH5, the install process should proceed to where you have to use a browser to VNC client get into the installation program: ==> rhel52 : : Although I have everything configured properly in the CONF file: DASD=100-10F,300-30F HOSTNAME=linux000.ailife.com NETTYPE=qeth IPADDR=10.1.20.50 SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602 NETWORK=10.1.0.0 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 SEARCHDNS=ailife.com BROADCAST=10.1.255.255 GATEWAY=10.1.1.1 DNS=10.1.2.50:10.1.2.4 MTU=1500 PORTNAME=DONTCARE LAYER2=0 VSWITCH=1 I'm still prompted for network device configuration: Initalizing network drop monitor service Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Starting the zSeries initrd to configure networking. Version is 1.2 Scanning for available network devices... Autodetection found 1 devices. NUM CARD CU CHPID TYPE DRIVER IF DEVICES 1 OSA (QDIO) 1731/01 02 OSD qeth eth 0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602 <num>) use config, m) manual config, r) rescan, s) shell: Anybody know why it still prompts for network (qeth) configuration information? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 Frank, Here is my conf file that I used to install a rhel5.4 guest. Mine is set up to use FCP. DASD="999" FCP_1="0.0.8601 0x5005076300c908d8 0x5713000000000000" FCP_2="0.0.8601 0x5005076300c908d8 0x5714000000000000" FCP_3="0.0.8701 0x5005076300cd08d8 0x5714000000000000" HOSTNAME="jns6.endicott.ibm.com" NETTYPE="qeth" IPADDR="9.12.34.56" SUBCHANNELS="0.0.4108,0.0.4109,0.0.410A" PORTNAME="JNS" PORTNO="0" NETWORK="9.12.34.0" MTU="1500" LAYER2="0" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" BROADCAST="9.12.34.255" GATEWAY="9.12.34.86.1" DNS="9.0.3.1:9.0.2.11" SEARCHDNS="ibm.com:pok.ibm.com" Regards, John Schnitzler Jr. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
