On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:22:03 -0500 (EST), Larry D Martin wrote: > > I am doing an install on an IBM Z9 LPAR of 6.0.3. > > The install was going smoothly until I got to > "Configure direct access storage device". I supplied an address > and was ask if I wanted to format it; I said yes and when it > finished it went back to the previous screen. It just keeps > alternating these screens. How do I move forward?
This type of question probably should have been posted to debian-s...@lists.debian.org. But I will attempt to answer it. I have installed Debian on a z890, but it was not in an LPAR: it was in a virtual machine under z/VM. And it's been a while since I did a from-scratch-install on a mainframe; so I'm a bit rusty. Anyway ... First of all, when you give the installer a device number, I believe it wants it in the form 0.0.xxxx, where xxxx is the device number as it would be known to, say, z/OS. Secondly, if a letter (A-F) is included in the device address, make sure you specify it in lower case (a-f), which is not intuitive to mainframers. For example, device address 30A would be specified as 0.0.030a. (Not including the period at the end of the sentence, of course.) Third, assuming that you are using PuTTY as your SSH client, make sure that you set the translation to UTF-8, as the default is ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1). The Debian installer assumes UTF-8, and the scroll bars and such will look terrible, maybe not even functional, if the code page is not UTF-8. Window -> Translation Character set translation on received data Received data assumed to be in which character set UTF-8 See if that helps any. (You do know to switch to an SSH client immediately after configuring the network and the SSH server used by the installer, right?) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1337055454.59124.1324515307826.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
