Alright, you know the situation, the company won't spend money to buy CD's. So, to FTP the distribution to a server (CD or DASD) what do I need? It looks like the first thing that LOADER goes after is /s390/RedHat/base files, then it goes for the s390/RedHat/RPMS/ files. What are you including in your 1.4GB estimate, and is there a way to run LOADER (or RHSETUP) by not first downloading the RPMS file to a local server? I do still have the SuSE 7.0 CD's, but the company wants RedHat, is loading SuSE first the best option, then setting it up as the Redhat distribution FTP server?
--- "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. Can I recommend that you _not_ do it this way? You are way too > subject to network errors that will result in having to restart the > process. > You'll probably wind up having to re-download the distribution many > times. > You would be much better off to find some free space (1.4GB excluding > the > SRPMS) on an FTP server somewhere in your shop. (Any kind will do > nicely, > including a Windows one.) Or, if you have it available, an NFS > server. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chet Norris [mailto:chet10719@;yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RHSETUP and LOADER Fails > > > I'm pointing to RedHat mirror sites from a new system and I'm only > running kernel.img and initrd.img, which were booted from the VM > reader. I don't have a md5sum command. The only s390 directory is the > one I'm FTP'ing from. > > --- "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chet, > > > > Check the md5 sums on the files in the s390/RedHat/base directory > > md5sum -c MD5SUM > > > > Note that if you have the most current files, that hdlist and > hdlist2 > > will > > fail the check, since they were apparently updated after the MD5SUM > > file was > > created. The sums I have for those files are: > > da08ed9f6b3071fd6361e9eb1fc370f9 hdlist > > 31bbfea4b72c2e25b4c57f8226cd3ac5 hdlist2 > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 markp users 1457332 Sep 20 11:46 hdlist > > -rw-r--r-- 1 markp users 13438708 Sep 20 11:32 hdlist2 > > > > Mark Post > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chet Norris [mailto:chet10719@;yahoo.com] > > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 2:44 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RHSETUP and LOADER Fails > > > > > > The same thing happens with LOADER: > > # ifconfig iucv0 > > > > iucv0 Link encap:Serial Line IP > > > > inet addr:162.130.6.225 P-t-P:10.10.10.10 Mask:255.255.255.255 > > > > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1492 Metric:1 > > RX packets:6091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:3270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:27 > > RX bytes:8337934 (7.9 Mb) TX bytes:152356 (148.7Kb) > > > > > > lqqqqqqqqqqqqu FTP tqqqqqqqqqqqqqk > > x x > > x Unable to retrieve the first x > > x install image x > > x x > > x lqqqqk x > > x x OK x x > > x mqqqqj x > > x x > > x x > > mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj > > > > --- Chet Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've tried many times to get a Redhat 7.2 system downloaded into > my > > > z/VM 4.3 system. I have IUCV configured and it seems to be > working > > > fine. When I run RHSETUP it starts the download for the Ramdisk > and > > > runs for a long time. I watch it by entering ifconfig iucv0 > > commands > > > and it runs until it has transmitted 7.6MB (the size of the > > > netstg1.img > > > file) and then fails. I see no messages anywhere other than > > "Download > > > of FTP:..... failed" followed by "Stopped installation. No > cleanup > > is > > > done.". It seems like it can't write the directory information > onto > > > the > > > dasd. Any suggestions? > > > > > > ===== > > > Chet Norris > > > Marriott International,Inc. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > ===== > > Chet Norris > > Marriott International,Inc. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > ===== > Chet Norris > Marriott International,Inc. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ===== Chet Norris Marriott International,Inc. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/