Re: More hurdles: installing SuSE on OS/400; can't

Bryan Dietz <BDietz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

if you go to STRSST and look at the partition status what do you see??

Wow, nifty command.  I see the following.  Hope this doesn't get warped.  
(original is 80 coloums, but your newsreader may wrap at 72/74--reformat as 
necessary)
"""

 27800850                   Display Partition Status
                                                            System:   LIVWMID
 Partition             IPL     IPL                 Sys IPL  Reference
 Identifier  Name      Source  Mode     State      Action   Codes
   2         LIVWMID   B       Normal   On         Hold
   4         LINUX01   C       Manual   Off        Hold

[...several lines of blank space]

 F3=Exit                            F5=Refresh
 F9=Include reference code detail   F10=Monitor partition status
 F11=Display partition processing configuration   F12=Cancel

"""

Does that help?

--
Tommy Butler, Linux Engineer
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office: (682) 831-8050

linux400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/18/2006 09:46:23 AM:

-> Well we have progress, my fellow engineers.  I've been able to
successfully:
->
-> 1.   Put new ISO images for SuSE into IFS
-> 2.   Create an image catalog for them (CRTIMGCLG)
-> 3.   Add the images into the image catalog (ADDIMGCLGE)
-> 4.   Load the image catalog onto a virtual optical device (LODIMGCLG)
-> 5.   Vary on the catalog (VRYIMGCLG)
-> 6.   Vary on the optical device
-> 7.   Vary on the hosted partition (its named LINUX01)
->
-> ...now according to the docs I should be able to telnet to port 2301 and
-> from there be able to interact with the installation program (kicked off
by
-> booting the first image in the image catalog (SuSE ISO disk 1 of 6).
->
-> But the problem comes there.  When I telnet to port 2301 I get the
following
-> message after choosing the guest partition number for the Linux
partition
-> (LINUX01) and entering my service tools userid/password:
->
-> LINUX01: Console connecting...
->
-> And that's it.  No love.  And I can't get any help from IBM either.
Their
-> tech support can't seem to figure it out or provide me with any kind of
-> solution.  (This time I actually got to a Linux support rep!)
->
-> For a screenshot of my terminal, see
-> http://atrixnet.com/tmp/console-connecting.png
-> <http://atrixnet.com/tmp/console-connecting.png>
->
-> --
-> Tommy