: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE install frustration re: First DASD mount...
Robert,
/dev/dasda1 refers to the first partition on dev/dasda. You will need to 'fdasd'
and 'mke2fs' for /dev/dasda1 If this is a SuSE install, when you first logon
it in an
unusable state.
Mark Post
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From: Nix, Robert P. [mailto:Nix.Robert;mayo.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:43 AM
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Subject: Re: SuSE install frustration re: First DASD mount...
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The way I got past the problem was to do the format
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Subject: Re: SuSE install frustration re: First DASD mount...
Robert,
By any chance were these disk volumes CMS formatted before starting the
Linux installation? If so, that is a known no no. On 2.2 systems, the
CMS formatting confuses dasdfmt just enough that it thinks the whole
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE install frustration re: First DASD mount...
That could be the problem, then, because I did format them beforehand to be
sure they had a 4k blocksize before I brought up Linux.
Robert P. Nixinternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mayo Clinic
This should be dirt simple, and I've already done it several times, so I'm not really
understanding what I've done wrong here, but...
I wanted to build a new Linux/390 image. I created the new userid, loaded up the ram
image, went through defining the network and logged into root via telnet. I
: SuSE install frustration re: First DASD mount...
This should be dirt simple, and I've already done it several times, so I'm
not really understanding what I've done wrong here, but...
I wanted to build a new Linux/390 image. I created the new userid, loaded up
the ram image, went through defining
Robert,
/dev/dasda1 refers to the first partition on dev/dasda. You will need to 'fdasd'
and 'mke2fs' for /dev/dasda1 If this is a SuSE install, when you first logon you
should be presented with a screen that explains how to issue the insmod command and
how to format the dasd prior to
