When I tried to install it on a zPDT it complained about my processor (says that it is not supported), is it an zPDT issue or ubuntu is not recognizing the machine type 1090?
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ray Mansell <r...@mansell.org> wrote: > After some offline troubleshooting (Viktor and I are both with IBM), it > turns out that the installation files on the CD image are slightly out > of date with respect to the development files. Having obtained the > relevant initrd and kernel images, I am now happily installing Ubuntu. > > This is where you should retrieve the working files: > > http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/xenial/main/installer-s390x/current/images/generic/ > > There are also a couple of things you need to be aware of during the > installation: > > * After you select the installation language, the installer will ask > you to select a download mirror. The only choice is to enter it > manually, at which point you should enter: ports.ubuntu.com > * After that, it will prompt you for the subdirectory, to which you > should respond '/ubuntu-ports' (without the quotes, but *with* the > leading slash) > > From that point onwards, it looks a lot like the Debian installation > procedure. Well, so far... it hasn't yet completed. > > Ray > > On 3/31/2016 10:17, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote: > >> On 31.03.2016 15:57, Ray Mansell wrote: >> >>> I downloaded and expanded the CD image, and started to install it. >>> However, I'm now stuck looking for an FTP server from which to perform >>> the bulk of the installation. >>> >>> On the "Select your location" screen, I choose USA. >>> The next screen "Choose a mirror..." supplies "enter information >>> manually" as the only choice. >>> Selecting that gets me to the "Choose a mirror..." screen, which invites >>> me to enter the mirror's hostname. >>> And that would be.... what? (pointing it to my local FTP server where I >>> downloaded the ISO doesn't help - it just fails with "Bad archive >>> mirror") >>> >>> Can you point me to the appropriate installation mirror, please? >>> >> You could try the following URL: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports >> [,,,] >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/ > -- Linux User #387870 .........____ .... _/_õ|__| ..º[ .-.___.-._| . . . . .__( o)__( o).:_______ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/
