Clovis/Rick - thanks for the responses.
I Googled around any could not find much documentation on the 9336
capability so I thought I would give it a try.
Using the hercules.conf that worked for me on my latest RHEL6 install I
attached the iso with
ATTACH 0200 9336 /etc/hercules/dasd/rhel6.iso
and was rewarded with
HHCDA067I <filename> blks=5395684
Encouraged I proceeded to IPL the installer - all went smoothly until I
specified the DASD range - I used 130-131,200
where 130 and 131 are my mod9s and 200 is the iso image 9336.
I then got pages and pages of errors - lots of "ERP has run out of retries
and failed" on device 0.0.0200
Eventually I got a list of "Activated DASDs " showing
0.0.0200(FBA ) dasdc :active, blocksize 512, 5395684 blocks 2634 MB
I pressed on and tried the HardDisk install option - not sure what directory
so I chose / - back to more pages of errors.
Seems like I missed something - will keep trying using the suggested NFS
technique.
Cheers
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From: "Clovis Pereira" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 4:20 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Rick, to compliment:
Hercules have a IPL_DVD command. No need to map the source .iso file if
installing into Hercules.
Using Windows as a server, we can mount the .iso file on a free "dasd
letter" (using the freeware program MagicISO by example) and enabling
this letter to any FTP server (FileZilla?)...
Using any Linux (including zLinux or PC flavors) we can "loop mount" the
.iso file (mount -o loop <dvd-file.iso> /mnt/cd1) and exporting it (put
/mnt/cd1 into /etc/exports) for use with NFS (the better choice).
All these options keep the symlinks and enable installation of zLinux
without problems.
______________________________________________
Clovis
From:
Richard Troth <[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Date:
10/12/2010 14:47
Subject:
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Sent by:
Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]>
So ... we're glad you're flying now, and you don't need the following,
but I will post anyway for reference.
Following on what Clovis suggested, you can get Hercules to treat a
DVD as an FBA disk. Depending then on the installer, you may be able
to "install from local media". It is probably more reliable than any
network installation. It is certainly more efficient than a network
installation.
Take a snap-shot of the DVD as a .iso file, just like Clovis said.
(Or use the original image you downloaded, if you burned the DVD
locally.) Tell Hercules that is a 9336. Then within Linux, load the
dasd_mod_fba driver and point to the device thus defined. Voi-la!
Local media. Not just Herc, but anything which will attach a "file"
to the S390, emulated or otherwise, so we're talking P/390 and stuff.
-- R; <><
Rick Troth
Velocity Software
http://www.velocitysoftware.com/
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 16:22, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]> wrote:
I tried that but the installed kept saying various rpms were missing -
even
though they were there - very weird.
Install is now complete - I created an FTP server on Ubuntu on a
separate PC
- mounted the DVD and served it back to the installer from there - once
this
was setup the install occurred without incident is a couple of hours.
Thanks to all for assistance.
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From: "Agblad Tore" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:17 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Hi, About the DVD and the symlinked files problem,
just take the sym links and move the real files to the linked places,
it
works fine after that :)
Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga
Hälsningar
Tore Agblad
Volvo Information Technology
Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development
SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/
________________________________________
From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bern
VK2KAD
[[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 04:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Hi
I was encouraged to try this technique - I can see the file structure
but
the symbolic links are still unresolved.
I copied the iso to a USB thumb drive which found a home at H: - I then
mapped an E: drive from the ISO using a free "Mount'n'Drive manager
from
DAEMON tools lite. The iso contents are successfully shown on the E:
drive
but the symbolic links just look like empty datasets - a 0KB file.
I then tried a linux ftp server called vsftpd which I installed using
apt-get. Everyting looks fine - ftp'ing into the ftp server gives
the
expected results and the install tree looks correct and the symbolic
links
actually work.
Unfortunately, when I try to connect to this server via the RedHat
installer, all I get on the log is "Couldn't connect to server"
My next attempt is work out how to create a NFS connection - more
reading
needed.
B.
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From: "Clovis Pereira" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:47 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Hi,
My circunvention to it, is copy the entire DVD as one .iso file to
WinXP,
mount the .iso as a virtual driver and enable it to FTP server. This
preserve all DVD structures.
There are a lot of free programs to create the .iso file and to create
the
virtual drivers.
______________________________________________
Clovis
From:
Alan Altmark <[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Date:
06/12/2010 01:41
Subject:
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Sent by:
Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]>
On Sunday, 12/05/2010 at 05:44 EST, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]>
wrote:
My next issue was the file structure on the DVD - my FTP server is
Filezilla
running on XP - I simply copied the DVD contents to a folder on the
FTP
server - alas this created another problem - the symbolic links for
repodata
and packages weren't handled properly
Actually, the problem is not the file structure, but Windows XP
itself.
Windows Vista is the first version of Windows to include support for
symbolic links in NTFS. Hopefully MS added the support to the CD/DVD
drivers as well.
Alan Altmark
z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
IBM System Lab Services and Training
ibm.com/systems/services/labservices
office: 607.429.3323
[email protected]
IBM Endicott
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