RE: New user help

["Martin, Larry D" <LDMartin@co.pg.md.us>]

Philipp,

I would be happy to do that.  I know almost nothing about Linux or its commands.  Can you suggest a technique?  I do have the file name on my terminal but do not know how to list it.

Thanks,   ...........Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Kern [mailto:pkern@debian.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 2:23 PM
To: Martin, Larry D
Cc: 'debian-s390@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: New user help

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:38:14AM -0500, Martin, Larry D 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.
> 
> In another session if I do  # cat /proc/dasd/devices I get:
> 0.0.2249(ECKD) at ( 94:     0) is dasda       : active at blocksize: 4096, 1803060 blocks, 7043 MB
> 0.0.224a(ECKD) at ( 94:     4) is dasdb       : active at blocksize: 4096, 1803060 blocks, 7043 MB

Could you provide us with a dump of /var/log/syslog, please?

Thanks
Philipp Kern