I can add my experiences trying to install SLES9 on a z/VM 5.1 system...and none of them are good.
My installation server is an Intel box, running SuSE SLES9. The Intel box has a great deal of disk storage available, so I just put the 6 .iso files onto the server. I just do a simple mount -o loop -t iso9660 to make the cd images available. So far, so good.
After booting the initial SLES9 install VM kernel and ram disk, in a 512M virtual machine and getting the networking setup and working (eth0 on a QDIO gLAN) without too much difficulty, I choose SSH and FTP for performing the basic installation, and I specify location of the install media as /CD1 (where I have mounted the CD1.iso file). I then log on, using SSH and start yast. After successfully creating the dasd partitions and making the mount points, yast reports the following error:
Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error?
On the Intel SLES9 server, I can navigate and view the files on /CD1, and they all appear OK. Anybody got a clue as to what's wrong?
TIA.
DJ Herczeg, Zoltan wrote:
I can feel your pain. I ordered the SuSE sles9 evaluation and installed it via ftp from my windows desktop using war ftp server. It took me days just to get the ftp server set up properly for the initial install. Now after redoing things so many times and working with SuSE support on why my nic cards don't activate when linux boots a month has gone by and I have nothing to show for it. I am running MP3000, lpar with the nics on the MP3000.
Zoltan
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