Thanks to everyone who responded. I have now managed to install onto FBA mini-disks.
Having understood the information about FBA disks not requiring formatting, and that there could be only one partition on a disk, I used 'Edit' on the Partitioner panel to specify mount point for the partions. I also found that I had to select 'format' within the Edit dialogue and set the file system to ext3 (although ext3 was the only one I tried). The installer presumably then did the 'pseudo partitioning' which was mentioned in one of the posts. The install failed if I left the default 'Do not format' option - I cannot remember the error codes/messages. Keith Gooding ________________________________ From: martin roby <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 31 August, 2010 21:29:34 Subject: Re: Installing SLES 10 SP3 on z/VM emulated FBA disks I installed using eckd disks. I had a hard time. My install would hang. Then I went into the mini install shell and used dasdfmt and then fdisk to create just twm partitions (/boot and /) on the drive. The next reboot worked fine. I did not use lvm, I ended up doing the whole install onto one partition. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Keith Gooding <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone had any success in installing SLES 10 onto z/VM emulated 9336 > mini-disks ?. I have been trying to follow the IBM 'SLES 10 SP2 Cookbook' > Redbook, but using emulated FBA (9336) mini-disks instead ECKD disks. But the > installer only appears to support CKD disks or iSCSI (or ZFCP?) disks. > > Or should I give up and use CKD for the system and emulated FBA for other file > systems ? > > Keith > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
