RE: Installation Question

2009-12-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-23, Marry Martin wrote: > Unfortunately the list is empty (recognizes none) and then prompts me > to enter an address, which, of course fails. > > Thanks again, ..Larry When you get to the screen that is supposed to show the recognized dasd devices, and nothing shows up, o

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-23 Thread Martin, Larry D
l Message- From: Stephen Powell [mailto:zlinux...@wowway.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:41 AM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Installation Question On 2009-12-23, Larry Martin wrote: > It appears that Debian does not think the disks are usable because > they

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-23, Larry Martin wrote: > It appears that Debian does not think the disks are usable because > they are "reachable" from another partition. > When I did the IOCDS for our machine I actually had the two volumes > for Linux reachable from four LPARs. One of the four is linux, one > is in

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-23 Thread Martin, Larry D
From: Frans Pop [mailto:elen...@planet.nl] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:33 AM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation Question A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I inclu

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-23 Thread Martin, Larry D
Should I have chosen to Start a Shell? Thanks, Larry -Original Message- From: Frans Pop [mailto:elen...@planet.nl] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:47 PM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Installation Question Martin, Larry D wrote: > All goes well until the

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Martin, Larry D wrote: > All goes well until the install asks which site I want to use. I chose > ftp.us.debian.org (and a couple of others) and I get "...site either not > available or does not contain a valid release..." The ftp.us.debian.org mirror works perfectly for me (using the same CD).

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-22 Thread Martin, Larry D
he install? Thanks again, Larry -Original Message- From: Frans Pop [mailto:elen...@planet.nl] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:13 PM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation Question On Monday 21 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Martin, Larry D wrote

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On December 21, 2009, Larry Martin wrote: > The iso directory for s390 is empty (as far as I can tell) again this week. > > Thanks, .Larry According to the web page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/, problems with the weekly builds should be reported on another list: deb

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 21 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Martin, Larry D wrote: > > The iso directory for s390 is empty (as far as I can tell) again this > > week. > > Unfortunately the server that hosts the Debian Installer images for s390 > looks to be down today, which means that the server that builds th

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-21 Thread Frans Pop
Martin, Larry D wrote: > The iso directory for s390 is empty (as far as I can tell) again this > week. Unfortunately the server that hosts the Debian Installer images for s390 looks to be down today, which means that the server that builds the CD images could not download them and so the weekly

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-21 Thread Martin, Larry D
The iso directory for s390 is empty (as far as I can tell) again this week. Thanks, .Larry -Original Message- From: Frans Pop [mailto:elen...@planet.nl] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:59 AM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation Question Martin

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-16 Thread Martin, Larry D
Thanks..Larry -Original Message- From: Frans Pop [mailto:elen...@planet.nl] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:59 AM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation Question Martin, Larry D wrote: > The S390 directory appears to me to be empty this week.

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-16 Thread Frans Pop
Martin, Larry D wrote: > The S390 directory appears to me to be empty this week. Yes, unfortunately there was a build error this week (which sometimes happens for daily and weekly builds). The images should be back next Monday. > There was stuff there last week (can I point to that?). Afraid n

RE: Installation Question

2009-12-16 Thread Martin, Larry D
: Installation Question Frans Pop wrote: > Martin, Larry D wrote: >> Does anyone know if the problem installing Debian on zSeries from CD-ROM >> has been corrected? > > Yes, it has. Hm. Except that for Lenny (stable) we haven't had any new CD builds since it was fixed

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-14, Peter Oberparleiter wrote: > > FYI, upstream fix see git commit: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=22825ab7693fd29769518a0d25ba43c01a50092a > > > Regards, > Peter Oberparleiter > Thanks, Peter. I like the official upstream version

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Oberparleiter
On 14.12.2009 15:40, Stephen Powell wrote: Given the low frequency of stable release updates, perhaps I should ask if the fix for Debian bug #550898 is scheduled to be included in the next update, both in the Debian installer and in the regular stock kernels. This fix is an s390/s390x-specific f

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Powell
Frans Pop wrote: > Hm. Except that for Lenny (stable) we haven't had any new CD builds since > it was fixed. That will only happen at the next stable point release > (which is overdue). > > The weekly built CD for Squeeze [1] should work though and should be usable > to install Lenny too. You'll

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
Frans Pop wrote: > Martin, Larry D wrote: >> Does anyone know if the problem installing Debian on zSeries from CD-ROM >> has been corrected? > > Yes, it has. Hm. Except that for Lenny (stable) we haven't had any new CD builds since it was fixed. That will only happen at the next stable point rel

Re: Installation Question

2009-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
Martin, Larry D wrote: > Does anyone know if the problem installing Debian on zSeries from CD-ROM > has been corrected? Yes, it has. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org