Yes, thanks. The one on the DVD is perhaps outdated. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harley Linker Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 1:17 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Upgrade of SLES 11 SP4 to SLES 12 SP2 on System z
Aria, The deployment guide I refenced is the one I obtained from the SLES 12 SP2 DVD1 iso file. I did find the parameter in https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_sle_deployment/book_sle_deployment.html#sec.appdendix.parm.general. Thanks again! Harley -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:37 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Upgrade of SLES 11 SP4 to SLES 12 SP2 on System z Hi Harley, My environment is not the same as yours and I don't use a complete parameter file like you do but I noticed that you said you are upgrading from 11 to 12, but I don't see the 'upgrade=1' parameter among your parameter list. The SUSE upgrade manual for z says you need that parameter when you upgrade rather than install from scratch. Perhaps that's why yast wanted to format your volumes. Also, when you don't use a more complete param file, you do get that initial menu. When you are upgrading an existing system, I select 'Install' on the first menu and then 'Upgrade' on the next menu. This second menu is the menu you describe below. Perhaps what you are missing is just the 'upgrade=1' parameter in your param file. Aria -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harley Linker Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 12:23 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Upgrade of SLES 11 SP4 to SLES 12 SP2 on System z Hi, I am looking to upgrade some of my z/VM based servers from SLES 11 SP4 to SLES 12 SP2 and am wondering if this is possible on System z. My guest is defined as: PROFILE LNXDFLT LOGONBY ... IPL CMS PARM AUTOCR CONSOLE 009 3215 T SPOOL 00C 2540 READER A SPOOL 00D 2540 PUNCH A SPOOL 00E 1403 A LINK MAINT 190 190 RR LINK MAINT 19D 19D RR LINK MAINT 19E 19E RR LINK LNXMAINT 191 191 RR USER SYSSOFT1 xxxxxxxx 3074M 3074M G INCLUDE LNXDFLT NICDEF 1F00 TYPE QDIO LAN SYSTEM VSWINT1 MDISK 200 3390 001 10016 LN150D MR ALL SOME FEW / MDISK 201 FB-512 V-DISK 524288 WV SWAP MDISK 990 3390 001 10016 LN150E MR ALL SOME FEW /OPT MDISK 991 3390 001 10016 LN150F MR ALL SOME FEW /OPT The 200 disk is the boot volume, 201 is a virtual swap disk, and 990 and 991 are an LV mounted to /opt. I am using a PARMFILE containing the following (sanitized): ramdisk_size=131072 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc term=dumb vmpoff=logoff hostname= mf-syssoft1 hostip=10.17.1.xxx gateway=10.17.1.129 nameserver=999.24.8.126 instnetdev=osa osainterface=qdio layer2=1 portno=0 netmask=255.255.255.192 broadcast=10.17.1.255 readchannel=0.0.1f00 writechannel=0.0.1f01 datachannel=0.0.1f02 install=nfs://10.17.1.yyy/media/s390x/sles12sp2/dvd1 ssh=1 ssh.password=pppppppp linuxrclog=/dev/console manual=0 I begin the installation by logging onto the SYSSOFT1 guest (which already has SLES 11 SP4 installed). I interrupt the Linux boot with #cp I cms acc (noprof I then run the SLES12 EXEC which pulls in the PARMFILE above. The only prompts I received on the console are for Specifying a MAC address is optional. In most cases letting it default is the correct choice. Provide one only if you know it is truly necessary. Optional MAC address. (Enter '+++' to abort). When the installation system finished booting, I PuTTYed into another test server and 'ssh -X root@10.17.1.156<mailto:root@10.17.1.156>', replied with the password (the one specified in the PARMFILE), then invoked YaST. I went thru all of the screens and specified what I needed to but when I got to the last screen and selected [Install] I received a pop-up that my disk would be reformatted and I would lose all of the data that was on it. I am asking in that I was working with Novell support yesterday and we terminated the YaST portion of the install by slecting [Abort]. On the console (the VM screen) we received the following: Start Installation 0) <-- Back <-- 1) Installation 2) Upgrade 3) Rescue System 4) Boot Installed System 5) Network Setup Is there a way to modify the PARMFILE to specify that I wasn't to perform an upgrade-in-place? Do I need to use a PARMFILE with a minimal set of parameters? I tried to change the install=nfs://10.17.1.yyy/media/s390x/sles12sp2/dvd to upgrade=nfs://10.17.1.yyy/media/s390x/sles12sp2/dvd1. The installation system couldn't find the SLES 12 repository. Thank you. Harley Harley Linker Jr. Sr. Systems Programmer Ensono e: harley.lin...@ensono.com<mailto:harley.lin...@ensono.com> o: 630.944.5111 www.ensono.com<http://www.ensono.com/> (c) 2017 Ensono, LP. All rights reserved. Ensono is a trademark of Ensono, LP. The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. 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All rights reserved. Ensono is a trademark of Ensono, LP. The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
