I know that this is late in the game, but the mkinstallroot script (supplied by Mark Post I believe) that was posted here worked great for me. If you are going to install SLES9 it would be worth the effort to search the archives, and implement.
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:04 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom Duerbusch > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:26 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Dave Jones Houston, TX 281.578.7544 (speaking for myself only) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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
