Is there a Fedora 14 ISO image for "real" mainframes? I.E. Those of us poor people who can't afford Hercules and have to get real zSeries boxes to play with?
-- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 9/30/10 11:08 AM, "Robin Atwood" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2010, Phil Knirsch wrote: >> On 09/30/2010 04:48 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: >>> Karsten - >>> I downloaded the installation images and booted using Hercules 3.07 (from >>> SVN) and everything went well until anaconda crapped out during >>> "Examining storage" (or a similar message). I had allocated four empty >>> 3390-9's which ought to be enough. I can post the logs here or is it >>> best to pursue this somewhere else? >>> >>> Cheers >>> -Robin >> >> Hi Robin. >> >> Were those completely fresh DASDs? If so, then anaconda should have >> asked you if it should initialize them (via dasdfmt). If that happened >> then you most likely got hit by the bug i described in point 10: >> >> 10) After a while if you do this the 1st time you will be asked to >> confirm to low level format the >> drive. Do this as this has to happen for a first time image. If you >> reuse an old image you >> won't be bothered with this anymore. >> We've had some cases where with a completely fresh image even >> partition would traceback. In that >> case simply restart the install from step 7) onwards and it should >> work. > > They were formatted with the dasdinit "-linux" parameter so dasdfmt should not > be necessary. or will that confuse it? > > -Robin > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robin Atwood. > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
