Re: Installing RHEL 7

2016-11-29 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Looping back around - a colleague got DHCP to work - "less is more" - a PARM file but no CONF file, almost no networking variables set, then DHCP kicks in: ro ramdisk_size=4 CMSDASD=191 rd.znet=qeth,0.0.0350,0.0.0351,0.0.0352,layer2=1 nameserver=10.10.10.10 nameserver=10.10.10.11 rd.dasd=0.0.0

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2016-11-17 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Thanks Steffen for a thorough reply - we will dig on this... -Mike On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Steffen Maier wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On 11/17/2016 01:15 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > >> Is there any documentation on how to install RHEL 7 using DHCP? >> >> The current "Cookbook" only show

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2016-11-17 Thread Steffen Maier
Hi Mike, On 11/17/2016 01:15 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: Is there any documentation on how to install RHEL 7 using DHCP? The current "Cookbook" only shows how to static IP (who wrote that thing? :)) The Red Hat documentation on line alludes to DHCP, but does not have a specific example - perhap

Installing RHEL 7

2016-11-17 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Is there any documentation on how to install RHEL 7 using DHCP? The current "Cookbook" only shows how to static IP (who wrote that thing? :)) The Red Hat documentation on line alludes to DHCP, but does not have a specific example - perhaps I'm missing it. Thanks. -Mike M ---

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-11-06 Thread Ray Mansell
Thanks, Dan - that did the trick. Ray On 11/6/2014 10:06, Dan Horák wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:46:47 -0500 Ray Mansell wrote: I'm having pretty much the same problem described by Mike, except that my generic.prm looks like this: ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev inst.repo=ftp:/

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-11-06 Thread Dan Horák
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:46:47 -0500 Ray Mansell wrote: > I'm having pretty much the same problem described by Mike, except > that my generic.prm looks like this: > > ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev > inst.repo=ftp://9.2.98.16/e/redhat/rhel7 > > Looking at the FTP server, there is no si

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-11-06 Thread Ray Mansell
I'm having pretty much the same problem described by Mike, except that my generic.prm looks like this: ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev inst.repo=ftp://9.2.98.16/e/redhat/rhel7 Looking at the FTP server, there is no sign that any attempt was made to access it. Any ideas? I must b

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-22 Thread Agblad Tore
390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: den 16 september 2014 9:42 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Installing RHEL 7 Hello list, 1) Has anyone been able to install RHEL 7 on z? 2) Is there any documentation specific to System z? I was able to download

Re: PRM Troubles Installing RHEL 7 - SOLVED

2014-09-18 Thread Scully, William P
ednesday, September 17, 2014 7:08 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: PRM Troubles Installing RHEL 7 Filipe, Neale, Mike, Can you offer some advice? William Scully CA Technologies william.scu...@ca.com -- For

Re: PRM Troubles Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-18 Thread Jan Stodola
William, see comments bellow. On 09/18/2014 01:08 AM, Scully, William P wrote: Filipe, Neale, Mike, Can you offer some advice? I'm having trouble getting my PRM file to work. Based on this thread, and others, here's what I've coded: ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev root=li

Re: PRM Troubles Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-17 Thread Michael MacIsaac
William, >From RHEL 6 to RHEL 7, I only added one line to the PARM fie: root=live:nfs://myserver/my/file/system This seemed to obviate the need for the SSH session as it now points you directly to the VNC session (a la SLES where no SSH session is necessary). The additional lines you show in

PRM Troubles Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-17 Thread Scully, William P
Filipe, Neale, Mike, Can you offer some advice? I'm having trouble getting my PRM file to work. Based on this thread, and others, here's what I've coded: ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev root=live:http://141.202.207.39/redhat/rh7/zseries/ga/images/install.img inst.repo=htt

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Neale, Yes, that's the magic charm. Thanks! -Mike On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > You need to point it at the install.img file. Here's what I used (it needs > to spill at 80 characters): > > root=live:nfs:// > repo.dev.sinenomine.net/export/repository/s390x/linux/R

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Filipe Miranda
l > MacIsaac > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:42 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Installing RHEL 7 > > Hello list, > > 1) Has anyone been able to install RHEL 7 on z? > 2) Is there any documentation specific to System z? > > I was able to download

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Filipe Miranda
Mike, Use this as an example: > ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev > ip=10.16.105.69::10.16.111.254:21:train6.redhat.com:enccw0.0.0600:none > rd.znet=qeth,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602,layer2=0,portname=FOOBAR > nameserver=10.16.46.224 nameserver=10.16.36.29 > rd.dasd=0.0.0100 rd.da

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
No, z196 or better. On Sep 16, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Stewart, Lee wrote: > I thought I saw somewhere that RHEL 7 needed an EC12 levelset... I can't > find it offhand right now... Anyone else... -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / sign

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Stewart, Lee
X-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:42 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Installing RHEL 7 Hello list, 1) Has anyone been able to install RHEL 7 on z? 2) Is there any documentation specific to System z? I was able to download the two ISO images

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
You need to point it at the install.img file. Here's what I used (it needs to spill at 80 characters): root=live:nfs://repo.dev.sinenomine.net/export/repository/s390x/linux/RHEL/7/7.0/iso/images/install.img ramdisk_size=131072 cio

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Neale, Felipe, Thanks for the quick replies. I got to the documentation on the Web and will bookmark it. In section 14.1 "Customizing generic.prm", I don't see anything about live:nfs://, nor root= (maybe I'm missing it). In section 14.2 "Considerations for Hard Drive Installation on IBM System

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Filipe Miranda
Hello Mike, Here is the documentation for RHEL on z: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/part-installation-system-z.html Let me know if you have any questions, Kind Regards, Filipe Miranda On Sep 16, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Michael MacI

Re: Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
Successfully installed it last week. Key for me was root=live:nfs://... The live was the important bit. Original message From: Michael MacIsaac Date:2014/09/16 15:42 (GMT-05:00) To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Cc: Subject: [LINUX-390] Installing RHEL 7 Hello list, 1) Has anyone

Installing RHEL 7

2014-09-16 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello list, 1) Has anyone been able to install RHEL 7 on z? 2) Is there any documentation specific to System z? I was able to download the two ISO images from rhn.redhat.com. I did not see any documentation on the Web nor on the mounted ISO (perhaps I'm missing it). I tried the following steps,