Hey Robert, Although I don't have a solution to your specific problem, I do have a Debian 5.0.5 guest running on our machine in the Briefing Center. It's installed on a single full pack minidisk and I didn't have to do anything special to get it installed. If you need me to share any configuration details or settings of my install, let me know.
/Nick Sardino IBM Poughkeepsie Executive Briefing Center [email protected] From: RPN01 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 09/13/2010 12:29 PM Subject: Debian install... Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 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? -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
