SuSE Linux S/390: sles8
When connecting to the installation system of SLES8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries (regardless of whether in 31-bit or 64-bit mode) by using telnet or SSH, YaST2 cannot be found.
The installation system has not yet been loaded. The installation procedure has changed from SLES7 to match the one used by the other architectures. This was necessary as a prerequisite for using YaST2. The new installation process performs the following steps:
First, check whether you have specified the correct installation source and if you have enough main memory specified, at least
The next step is to check whether the installation source gets loaded correctly. You should see the following messages on the 3270 terminal:
ramdisk /dev/ram0 freed
>>> SuSE Linux installation program v1.4 (c) 1996-2002 SuSE Linux AG <<<
Starting hardware detection...
Searching infofile...
Loading data into ramdisk (40220 kB).............................
integrating the installation system into the ramdisk...
integrating the shared object of the installation system...
starting yast...
(The size of the installation system may be different for your product.)
At this point, either YaST gets started (VNC and X11) or you get a notice to log in to the installation system with SSH (e.g., by using PuTTY).
If the installation system is loaded incompletely, not loaded at all, or you fall back to
Main menu
1) Setting
2) System information
3) Kernel modules (hardware drivers)
4) Start installation / system
5) Exit / Reboot
6) Power off
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with the installation source on SMB and enough main memory, check whether you have exported the CD correctly on the Windows workstation.
Hint: if SMB does not work for you and you already have working Linux instances running on the mainframe, configure one to serve as an NFS or FTP server and use it to provide the installation data.