When I said ftping into the hmc, I meant FTP to it outside the network. Right now the network guys are working on fixing the network connection for the Lpar. It apparently was not done correctly.
In the meantime I issued those commands you provided for the Installer shell. Since the network info i have for the lpar is not correct then the ifconfig , route, and ping commands did not give me anything or address could not be reached. As far as issuing the FTP command within the installer shell to view contents of the hmc DVD, I guess that would only work if I enabled the FTP access to the hmc DVD. But since I don't have a valid client ipaddress (in this case the Lpar IP address) then it won't work , would it? The ifconfig command showed inet addr of 127.0.0.1 but the hmc did not recognize it as valid. I am installing SLES11.3 Thanks. On Friday, January 30, 2015, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 1/30/2015 at 05:52 PM, Steve P <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Honestly I don't know what file it is looking for. > > As I mentioned in my reply to Alan, I know which files are needed. I'm > partly responsible for the installer. > > > And ftping to the hmc > > invites all other problems. Let's just say it would have to involve all > of > > the network guys and security access guys to work together and that will > > take moving a mountain to make happen at this point in time. > > Um, if _you_ can't FTP into the HMC, then how would the Linux system be > able to do it? > > > For the moment I am chasing the IP address of the Linux lpar that I am > > installing this into. I need to verify what was given to me and I suspect > > it is incorrect. > > > > How do I find the command line to enter some hmc commands? I can't seem > to > > find it and I know it exists. There is a series of commands that will > tell > > me the lpar info and their associated IP addresses. > > I don't know what you mean by "HMC commands." I don't think any can get > shell access on the HMC. From the Linux perspective, you can get a shell > running. After you get the "No repository found" message, you should be > getting prompted again for the network protocol. Type in an x and press > enter. That should give you a "Linuxrc extras" menu. Select 3 for "start > a shell." > > At this point you should be able to display your network setup. > - ifconfig -a > - route -n > > Try to ping your default gateway. MAKE SURE you specify a count for the > ping command: > ping -c 3 ip.addr.default.gw > > If you don't, and your keyboard layout isn't set up right, you won't be > able to terminate the ping command. > > If you can ping your default gateway, see if you can ping the IP address > of the FTP server. If that works, then try this: > curl ftp://ip.addr.of.ftpserver/ > You should see a directory listing of the DVD. > > curl ftp://ip.addr.of.ftpserver/content > You should see a bunch of SHA256 hashes. If you get some sort of error, > then perhaps the information you were given to use wasn't correct. > > One other possibility is if your LPAR is hooked into a switch that expects > an IEEE vlan to be configured. If that's the case, they should have told > you. Even if they did tell you, depending on what version of SLES you're > trying to install, the installer might be able to set that up for you, or > you may need to do it manually from the shell. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> 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/
