Lenny installer hanging, replace SUSE with Lenny

[Dan Dart]

booting/IPLing the s390 Lenny debian install from within IBM's z/VM)

Whoops. Got the wrong end of the stick. I was thinking boot problems
with the kernel... since we're using the same (ish) kernel and both
having problems with freezing, I thought it might have some
similarity. Never mind.

Plus. does anyone have a safe way to replace SUSE with Debian while
running SUSE? (This IS on s/390 now, haha) I have experimented with
debootstrap and have found it to be a great tool. But how would I go
about making it permanent? Do I make sure openssh-server is installed,
install debian from inside a chroot, to outside it, or is there a
better way?

Cheers
Dan

[Adam Thornton]

Post by Dan Dart
Plus. does anyone have a safe way to replace SUSE with Debian while
running SUSE? (This IS on s/390 now, haha) I have experimented with
debootstrap and have found it to be a great tool. But how would I go
about making it permanent? Do I make sure openssh-server is installed,
install debian from inside a chroot, to outside it, or is there a
better way?

Here's how I'd do it:

Set up a new disk (this does require that you can get a new chunk of
DASD; under z/VM, of course, this is usually really easy. LPAR, not
so much.)
Mount it from the SuSE system.
Bind-mount /sys, /proc, /dev
debootstrap into the new disk
run mkinitrd/zipl on the new disk

Then shutdown the SuSE system and IPL from the new device.

Adam

[Adam Thornton]

Lenny 2.6.26-1 fails identically to Lenny d-i. (after aptitude dist-
upgrade). Frans Pop reassigned bug 511334 to the kernel, which seems
right.

Etchnhalf kernel is fine.

Adam

[Dan Dart]

Set up a new disk (this does require that you can get a new chunk of DASD;
under z/VM, of course, this is usually really easy. LPAR, not so much.)
Mount it from the SuSE system.
Bind-mount /sys, /proc, /dev
debootstrap into the new disk
run mkinitrd/zipl on the new disk
Then shutdown the SuSE system and IPL from the new device.
Adam

I can't really do this.. I only have one disk (DASD), and I have to do
it INSIDE the VM environment... I'm not the admin, I have root on one
of the VMs, that's it.