Re: Installing taroon under VM

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:17, Richard Hitt wrote:
> The odd thing is that the Disk 
> Druid (and the Autopartition method as well) comes up with /dev/dasdr as 
> the disk to use, not /dev/dasda as I had hoped.

what is your "DASD=" parameter set to in your parm file?  That will
affect the device -> linux device node mapping ...

> A separate annoying problem is that the disk my sysadmin assigned me was 
> not virgin but
> had a copy of our UTS operating system on it.  Using that disk led to 
> the problem that anaconda
> could find no dasd at all to use for the install.  I solved that problem 
> by using the DDR program under CMS to copy a Linux CDR disk image onto 
> the assigned disk.

that is a known issue we are working to fix ... :)

> 
> Perhaps there's no way around these installation problems other than for 
> anaconda to present
> the installer with a list of dasd and let the installer choose which one 
> anaconda should use.

This is the action of the DASD= parameter ...

> I've received scant to no mail lately on this mailing-list.  Is there 
> another venue that is being
> used for discussion of Red Hat on S/390?  Should I be sending email like 
> this to another list?

it is just low traffic ... :)

Brock

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