Anyone done a Debian install on z/VM?
I’m attempting to install Lenny, and I get to the DASD partitioning. I set
up my disks the way I want them, tell it to begin writing, and get the
following:
┌──────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├──
│ ERROR!!! │
│ VTOC: seeking on device failed -- vtoc_write_label │
│ Could not write VTOC labels. │
│ │
│ <Go Back> <Continue> │
│ │
└─────────────────────
The install won’t go any further from there.
I know the disks are writable within the virtual machine; I was able to use
cpfmtxa on them, and Debian was able to format them. I’ve tried just about
every combination of formatting and not formatting, partitioning and not
partitioning that I can think of. We have 50 RedHat and SuSE images running,
so it’s not that we don’t know what we’re doing in general. There must be a
way to make this work, or they wouldn’t have released it. Does anyone have a
clue as to how to do it correctly?
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