> What install method are you using (NFS, HTTP, FTP)? Sorry - I am using FTP and loopback mounted ISOs just the way you described.
And by "rhsetup" you mean the standard installer, anaconda, right? Not the s390-specific installer that nobody uses anymore? iirc rhsetup didn't support loopback-mounted ISOs via FTP/HTTP. well - if standard or not, I don't know ;-) - I never installed Linux before anywhere. After booting I invoke "rhsetup" just as described in the documentation ... regards Anna On 8/31/06, Fuhrmann Anna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > me being a newbie ... I have already isntalled once RHEL4 in a > z/linux partition once, but the rhsetup-portion happened with > substantial > help and I don't quite remember all things done. > > And now I want to install a second time in a second partition, > for a test system. > > My problem: > when invoking rhsetup at some point there comes the question > about the install path. > > There are 4 iso images, mounted in one common directory. > So I answered the question accordingly. > > Then I got a message telling me that package XYZ cannot be found there. > > I tried again, providing the path to the directory with the four > images unmounted - somehow nonsensical, but I tried anyway, with no > positive result. Then I tried again the directory where the images > have been mounted. Tried this and that - with no positive result. > > There is no way either to interrupt rhsetup or > go back to the beginning, so all I could do was to close > the window ;-) - and no way to invoke rhsetup a second time, > resulting in a completely new boot procedure > (a slightly disgusting affair including HMC console and all that). > > Can anyone help and tell why I was wrong? What should I do? > all I could recognise was that the package XYZ rhsetup "could not > find" is, I think, on the second iso image. But rhsetup did not > require a specific iso image, it requires a path. To what? to > all four images? or just to one at a time? which one? I don't know > how to continue. > > For hints and tips and help always thankful: > > Anna Fuhrmann > > Anna Fuhrmann > Systemprogrammierung Mainframe > MA 14-ADV * Magistrat der Stadt Wien > +43 1 4000 91639 > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
