After some offline troubleshooting (Viktor and I are both with IBM), it
turns out that the installation files on the CD image are slightly out
of date with respect to the development files. Having obtained the
relevant initrd and kernel images, I am now happily installing Ubuntu.
This is where you should retrieve the working files:
http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/xenial/main/installer-s390x/current/images/generic/
There are also a couple of things you need to be aware of during the
installation:
* After you select the installation language, the installer will ask
you to select a download mirror. The only choice is to enter it
manually, at which point you should enter: ports.ubuntu.com
* After that, it will prompt you for the subdirectory, to which you
should respond '/ubuntu-ports' (without the quotes, but *with* the
leading slash)
From that point onwards, it looks a lot like the Debian installation
procedure. Well, so far... it hasn't yet completed.
Ray
On 3/31/2016 10:17, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
On 31.03.2016 15:57, Ray Mansell wrote:
I downloaded and expanded the CD image, and started to install it.
However, I'm now stuck looking for an FTP server from which to perform
the bulk of the installation.
On the "Select your location" screen, I choose USA.
The next screen "Choose a mirror..." supplies "enter information
manually" as the only choice.
Selecting that gets me to the "Choose a mirror..." screen, which invites
me to enter the mirror's hostname.
And that would be.... what? (pointing it to my local FTP server where I
downloaded the ISO doesn't help - it just fails with "Bad archive mirror")
Can you point me to the appropriate installation mirror, please?
You could try the following URL: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports
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