This problem was never a real problem. We restarted everything and used a Putty and VNC on my workstation.
The ticket turned out to be putting a :1 on the end of the VNC ip address parameter. Then things started rolling. Thanks to all for that one. Then I needed to answer the question regarding where the installation process would find the installation image. Thanks to David Boyes for suggesting the ftp url. I configured a userid/password on my local GENE6 ftp server on my workstation and made the image directory available at login. We are now installing nnn of 559 packages. I am grateful to all the interested parties and maybe, just maybe, we can complete this installation without further issues. Best regards, ____________________ Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586 Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eileen Digan Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another Basic Red Hat RHEL 5.6 Install question There are IBM RedBooks that you may want to use as reference to perform the install while the Linux guy is off on the other project. You may be done before he returns ;-) Here is a link: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/mikemac/ On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Hughes, Jim <[email protected]>wrote: > Our Linux guy is off on another project and my natural curiosity has > gotten the best of me. > > I have restarted the Linux on Z installation procedure. I have Putty > installed. I have a Putty connection. I logged in as install. > > The Putty window is asking me this regarding the installation: > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Installation Method > > What type of media contains the installation image? > > Local CD/DVD > Hard Drive > NFS directory > URL > > OK BACK > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > The installation image is on a virtual DVD drive on my windows > workstation. > Do I need to run an NFS server or is there another option I should use? > I cannot find this in the Red Hat 5 installation guide. > > Thanks again. > > ____________________ > Jim Hughes > Consulting Systems Programmer > Mainframe Technical Support Group > Department of Information Technology > State of New Hampshire > 27 Hazen Drive > Concord, NH 03301 > 603-271-5586 Fax 603.271.1516 > > Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are > confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or > dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender > immediately and delete the message from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
