Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-27 Thread Steffen Maier
On 11/26/2010 07:52 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Testing away, rather than flood the list with these results where would you like them sent? system-config-lvm Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:10.0. Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'system-config-lvm' received an X Window System

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-26 Thread Neale Ferguson
Testing away, rather than flood the list with these results where would you like them sent? system-config-lvm Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:10.0. Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'system-config-lvm' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-26 Thread Karsten Hopp
Am 26.11.2010 19:52, schrieb Neale Ferguson: Testing away, rather than flood the list with these results where would you like them sent? system-config-lvm Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:10.0. Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'system-config-lvm' received an X Window System error.

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Dan Horák
Patrick Spinler píše v St 24. 11. 2010 v 22:25 -0600: On 11/24/10 10:14 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: Now, I just gotta start compiling some source rpms Okay, now this is annoying, apparently there's not even a compiler package available in the fedora spin ... the installation repository is

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Neale Ferguson
Would it be possible to get install.img as an ext2/ext3 image rather than squashfs? I don't have any Linuxen that has that filesystem driver and I don't really want to go through an install of an intel image just to host that file. On 11/24/10 12:38 PM, Phil Knirsch pknir...@redhat.com wrote:

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Karsten Hopp
Am 25.11.2010 05:04, schrieb Patrick Spinler: On 11/24/10 9:51 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: On 11/24/10 9:30 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Karsten Hopp
Am 25.11.2010 15:44, schrieb Neale Ferguson: Would it be possible to get install.img as an ext2/ext3 image rather than squashfs? I don't have any Linuxen that has that filesystem driver and I don't really want to go through an install of an intel image just to host that file. On 11/24/10

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Neale Ferguson
Getting rid of the cio_ignore parameter from the old generic.prm and adding in the data so I could perform a kickstart using the fedora kickstart server has got me on my way. However, I¹m getting the following during the installation: Could not allocate requested partitions: not enough free space

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Karsten Hopp
Am 25.11.2010 17:44, schrieb Neale Ferguson: Getting rid of the cio_ignore parameter from the old generic.prm and adding in the data so I could perform a kickstart using the fedora kickstart server has got me on my way. However, I¹m getting the following during the installation: Could not

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Richard Troth
The installer really should not care about LDL -vs- CDL. If it does, that's a bug. Fix it. -- R; On Nov 25, 2010 12:22 PM, Karsten Hopp kars...@redhat.com wrote: Am 25.11.2010 17:44, schrieb Neale Ferguson: Getting rid of the cio_ignore parameter from the old generic.prm and adding in the

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Neale Ferguson
I took the default for dasdfmt and so it should be cdl: cat /proc/dasd/devices;lsdasd 0.0.0150(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize: 4096, 60084 0 blocks, 2347 MB 0.0.0151(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : active at blocksize: 4096, 60084 0 blocks, 2347 MB 0.0.0152(FBA

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/25/10 1:32 AM, Dan Horák wrote: the installation repository is populated only with a limited set of packages with rest available at http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide/s390x/os/ You only need to update the yum configuration after installation

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/25/10 11:21 AM, Karsten Hopp wrote: Am 25.11.2010 17:44, schrieb Neale Ferguson: Getting rid of the cio_ignore parameter from the old generic.prm and adding in the data so I could perform a kickstart using the fedora kickstart server has got me on my way. However, I¹m getting the

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-25 Thread Neale Ferguson
To get things going I copied anaconda-ks.cfg to a local webserver, got rid of the clearpart and part statements and am now getting further. The original had a size of 6GB which is greater than my 2 mod 3s. I tried to set up the part stuff to use LVM but don't think I got the syntax correct as I

Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Phil Knirsch
Hi everyone. As the subject says, we're closing in on the final official Fedora 14 release for System Z. All know issues have by now been fixed and we're now looking for a final round of testing. In case you want to give us a hand in testing you can find more details about how to help on

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Philip L Pinto
, November 24, 2010 12:39 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Cc: fedora-s3...@lists.fedoraproject.org; Linux on 390 Port Subject: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers! Hi everyone. As the subject says, we're closing in on the final official Fedora 14 release for System Z. All know

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
...@lists.fedoraproject.org; Linux on 390 Port Subject: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers! Hi everyone. As the subject says, we're closing in on the final official Fedora 14 release for System Z. All know issues have by now been fixed and we're now looking for a final round of testing. In case you want

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 8:00 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: I'll give a go at installing F14 on a mainframe this weekend. Is there anything in particular to test, or just the base install? -- Pat Alright, I haven't finished the install yet, it's still running, but let me just say that the initial install

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it appears to be doing things but I never get anything on the console. I assume it can write to a dumb terminal or at least a virtual HMC.

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
I take that back. I'm tracing the SVCs and am seeing attempted writes to the console (SVC 04 with fd = 2 == stderr) and the text appears to be: cannot read proc file system - 9 bad file descriptor. In fact, all the writes have references to bad file descriptors in there. I'm not sure what I've

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 9:30 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it appears to be doing things but I never get anything on the console. I assume it can write to

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 10:51 PM, Patrick Spinler spinler.patr...@mayo.edu wrote: I can send you my exec, parm file, and directory entry if you'd like. On 11/24/10 9:51 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Please Here you go, just pasted inline here: fdr1zl01 direct: USER FDR1ZL01 512M 512M G

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 9:51 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: On 11/24/10 9:30 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it appears to be doing things but I never get

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 10:07 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Thanks, in my parm file I had a cio_ignore parameter. When I got rid of that, I started getting messages. (apologies for forwarding this to the list, also, but I think it may be of general interest) Makes sense. The fedora hercules readme talks

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 10:14 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: Now, I just gotta start compiling some source rpms Okay, now this is annoying, apparently there's not even a compiler package available in the fedora spin ... Is my next option to try to compile gcc as a cross compiler, then compile itself for the