Re: [suse-autoinstall] AutoInstall on SLES8 SP3 s390x - dasd handling in control file
On 10/11/2005 at 11:36:03, in message <200511101236.03777.sjo@oncable.dk>, Steen Bank Johnsen <sjo@oncable.dk> wrote: Hi Yan
It never comes that far. During prepare of harddisks Yast annonces
Hi Steen Ok - bit of confusion here. I though your install was going through, but with an additional partition being created beyond dsadx1. The devices must be formated and partitioned, as YaST isn't capable (in SLES8) of doing it automatically. 1) I believe that you can do a z/VM format of the DASD devices as ECKD/Linux Disk Layout. In which case you can't have more than one partition, but apparently you can then use it from YaST without partitioning. 2) Alternatively, you should look into the autoyast pre-install script. That's the place you can do things like load the dasd module manually and do the required format and partitioning. The dasd tools should be on the initrd! See the README file on top level of first install media for SLES8. Best, Yan that it
couldn't format /dev/dasda2. Then I abort the installation. Should I always make a dasdfmt and fdasd -a on my dasd after loading the dasd module ???? If that the answer I still haven't unattended installation.
:-) Steen
Torsdag 10 november 2005 12:08 skrev du:
Hi Steen
Have tried the <initialize> didn't change anything. For the size
statement
didn't you mean max and not all?
I did. Sorry about that! Does it change anything?
The output from fdisk -l
I meant after autoyast has completed partitioning. I just wanted to see what the (wrong) result is.
Yan
Hi Yan I will try to use the pre-install script. Or could I use a SLES9 installation engine to install SLES8. It seems to me by your formulation that SLES9 can format and partition the DASD? Regards Steen Torsdag 10 november 2005 19:16 skrev Yan Fitterer:
Hi Steen
Ok - bit of confusion here. I though your install was going through, but with an additional partition being created beyond dsadx1. The devices must be formated and partitioned, as YaST isn't capable (in SLES8) of doing it automatically.
1) I believe that you can do a z/VM format of the DASD devices as ECKD/Linux Disk Layout. In which case you can't have more than one partition, but apparently you can then use it from YaST without partitioning.
2) Alternatively, you should look into the autoyast pre-install script. That's the place you can do things like load the dasd module manually and do the required format and partitioning. The dasd tools should be on the initrd!
See the README file on top level of first install media for SLES8.
Best, Yan
On 10/11/2005 at 11:36:03, in message
<200511101236.03777.sjo@oncable.dk>,
Steen Bank Johnsen <sjo@oncable.dk> wrote:
Hi Yan
It never comes that far. During prepare of harddisks Yast annonces
that it
couldn't format /dev/dasda2. Then I abort the installation. Should I
always
make a dasdfmt and fdasd -a on my dasd after loading the dasd module
???? If
that the answer I still haven't unattended installation.
:-) Steen
Torsdag 10 november 2005 12:08 skrev du:
Hi Steen
Have tried the <initialize> didn't change anything. For the size
statement
didn't you mean max and not all?
I did. Sorry about that! Does it change anything?
The output from fdisk -l
I meant after autoyast has completed partitioning. I just wanted to
see
what the (wrong) result is.
Yan
On Friday 11 November 2005 08:16, Steen Bank Johnsen wrote:
Or could I use a SLES9 installation engine to install SLES8.
I don't think so.
It seems to me by your formulation that SLES9 can format and partition the DASD?
the official SLES9 can't do that. We need that feature for SLES10 and so I created a patch for the driverupdate of SLES9 SP3 to make early testing possible. If you use that patch, autoyast on SLES9 can handle DASD too but it's not so official. It's more in a beta phase for testing here at SUSE and some IBM guys test that too. Official DASD support in autoyast will come with the next SUSE Linux version. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
Hi Uwe Is it possible that you could make a patch for SLES8 as well because we are stock with SLES8 for some time. Why is that? Thats because the software vendors isn't supporting sles9 at the moment. We are here talking about products running on oracle 9.2 and zDomino ( version 7 has just been released, so we will wait for some time before using it). I believe that a lot of mainframe customers has the same problem. But perhaps most mainframers isn't using autoyast but standard cloning tecniques. I could test the patch for you. Regards Steen Fredag 11 november 2005 10:32 skrev Uwe Gansert:
On Friday 11 November 2005 08:16, Steen Bank Johnsen wrote:
Or could I use a SLES9 installation engine to install SLES8.
I don't think so.
It seems to me by your formulation that SLES9 can format and partition the DASD?
the official SLES9 can't do that. We need that feature for SLES10 and so I created a patch for the driverupdate of SLES9 SP3 to make early testing possible. If you use that patch, autoyast on SLES9 can handle DASD too but it's not so official. It's more in a beta phase for testing here at SUSE and some IBM guys test that too. Official DASD support in autoyast will come with the next SUSE Linux version.
-- ciao, Uwe Gansert
Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
On Friday 11 November 2005 11:10, Steen Bank Johnsen wrote:
Is it possible that you could make a patch for SLES8 as well
I don't see that happen. It's too much work and (other than the SLES9 patch) almost no benefit for autoyast. You should try the suggested pre-script way. It might be necessary to do a reboot with the pre-script then after you did the dasd configuration, because hardware probing happens before the pre-script has run. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
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