| FIXME / 3.13. Performing the Installation | ||||
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 | 3.12. Installation Settings |  | 3.14. Configuration of the Installed System |  |
| FIXME / 3.13. Performing the Installation | ||||
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| 3.12. Installation Settings | | 3.14. Configuration of the Installed System | |
After making all installation settings, click in the suggestion window to begin the installation. Confirm with . Some software may require a license confirmation. If your software selection includes such software, license confirmation dialogs are displayed. Click to install the software. When not agreeing to the license, click and the software will not be installed.
The installation usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes, depending on the system performance and the software selected. During this procedure a slide show introduces the features of SUSE Linux Enterprise. Choose to switch to the installation log. As soon as all packages are installed, YaST boots into the new Linux system, after which you can configure the hardware and set up system services.
In most cases, YaST automatically reboots into the installed system on
the IBM System z platform. Known exceptions to this are installations
wherein the bootloader resides on an FCP device in environments with
LPAR on a machine older than z9 or with z/VM older than release 5.3. The
bootloader gets written to the device that holds the
/boot directory. If /boot is
not on a separate partition, it is on the same partition as the root
file system /.
In cases where an automatic reboot is not possible, YaST will show a dialog box containing information about from which device to do an IPL. Accept the shutdown option and perform an IPL after the shutdown. The procedure varies according to the type of installation:
In the IBM System z HMC, select , select
, then enter the loading address (the device
address of the device holding the /boot
directory with the bootloader). If using a ZFCP disk as the boot
device, choose and specify the load
address of your FCP adapter as well as WWPN and LUN of the boot
device. Now start the loading process.
Log in to the VM guest (see Example “Configuration of a z/VM Directory” (↑Architecture-Specific Information) for the
configuration) as LINUX1 and
proceed to IPL the installed system:
IPL 151 CLEAR
151 is an example address of the DASD boot device,
replace this value with the correct address.
If using a ZFCP disk as the boot device, specify both the ZFCP WWPN and LUN of the boot device before initiating the IPL. The parameter length is limited to eight characters. Longer numbers must be separated by spaces:
SET LOADDEV PORT 50050763 00C590A9 LUN 50010000 00000000
Finally, initiate the IPL:
IPL FC00
FC00 is an example address of the ZFCP adapter,
replace this value with the correct address.
After IPLing the installed system, establish a connection with it to complete the installation. The steps involved in this vary depending on the type of connection used at the outset.
A message in the 3270 terminal asks you to connect to the Linux system using a VNC client. This message is easily missed, however, because it is mixed with kernel messages and because the terminal process might quit before you become aware of the message. If nothing happens for five minutes, try to initiate a connection to the Linux system using a VNC viewer.
If connecting using a Java-capable browser, enter the complete URL, consisting of the IP address of the installed system along with the port number, in the following fashion:
http://<IP of installed system>:5801/
When IPLing the installed system, make sure that the X server used for the first phase of the installation is up and still available before booting from the DASD. YaST opens on this X server to finish the installation. Complications may arise if the system is booted up but unable to connect to the X server in a timely fashion.
![[Important]](admon/important.png) | IBM System z: Connecting from a Linux or UNIX System |
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Start SSH in an xterm. Other terminal emulators lack complete support for the text-based interface of YaST. | |
A message in the 3270 terminal asks you to connect to the Linux system with an SSH client. This message is easily missed, however, because it is mixed with kernel messages and because the terminal process might quit before you become aware of the message.
Once the message appears, use SSH to log in to the Linux system as
root. If the connection is
denied or times out, wait a few minutes then try again.
When the connection is established, execute the command /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.ssh. yast does not suffice in this case.
YaST then starts to complete the installation of the remaining packages and create an initial system configuration.