Re: Suse S390 help?
Thanks guys it works now. Lessons from the experience: 1. Just because you can get stuff from the Novell FTP server doesn't mean that you should. Use the publically available downloads. 2. Give your Hercules machine at least 512 MB, preferably 1GB. I was initially using a 256MB machine and it was painfully slow, eg. 30-40 minutes between installation panels. 3. Don't use anything but a 3390-3 for the installation disks. I tried a 3390-9 and dasdfmt said that it was formatting 9 cylinders. After the installation, I have been able to add 3390-9 disks. I cannot get LVM to work at all. It's still very slow compared to other operating systems running on the same Hercules installation but part of this could be because I am using NFS to access the disks. Perhaps there are some tuning knobs that I can tweak. Suse is constantly hitting the drives and spinning the (emulated) CPU. Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.12/462 - Release Date: 10/3/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
OK. I'm not sure if this will help but I ran into a problem installing SUSE 9 under zVM 5.1. Could not get the dasd to partition. Or it seemed to partition but couldn't use it, it's been a while. Anyway, the way I got around it was to format the disks in CMS first, then start the install. The system then formatted them correctly and I was able to complete the install without any more problems. Strange but true. Bob -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? I only use 3390-3 emulated DASD on Hercules. Who knows, some day I might actually be able to get a z/Linux system on my work zSeries machine. It would be nice to just backup my Hercules disk images in some manner which would allow them to be restored on real zSeries DASD and IPL'ed. Again, I'm weird. Hmm perhaps SUSE s390 has a problem with a 3390-9 ( 2GB?). Seems odd but I'll try it again. On my last try, I looked around before starting yast. I found fdasd and I used it to create my partitions, eg fdasd /dev/dasda fdasd /dev/dasdb I then started the yast install procedure. The System Information section found my drives as usual and also showed the partitions. But when I got to the actual install, it still insisted that it could not create a partition proposal and when I opened up the partitioning section, my partitions were not there. Perhaps a clue. Anyway I'll try with a smaller system DASD and see what happens. Once I get this to work, I would next like to get LVM to work as well. Thanks for all the help! If I can just get past this point, I think I will have it installed. Centos was nice but neither Oracle nor DB2 install on it. BTW are you running S390 or S390x SUSE? Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
OK. I'm not sure if this will help but I ran into a problem installing SUSE 9 under zVM 5.1. Could not get the dasd to partition. Or it seemed to partition but couldn't use it, it's been a while. Anyway, the way I got around it was to format the disks in CMS first, then start the install. The system then formatted them correctly and I was able to complete the install without any more problems. Thanks Bob. Someday I'll get around to installing VM over Hercules although I'm not sure that it's legal to do so. I have to check on that first. It sure would make life easier though. Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Paul Dembry wrote: OK. I'm not sure if this will help but I ran into a problem installing SUSE 9 under zVM 5.1. Could not get the dasd to partition. Or it seemed to partition but couldn't use it, it's been a while. Anyway, the way I got around it was to format the disks in CMS first, then start the install. The system then formatted them correctly and I was able to complete the install without any more problems. Thanks Bob. Someday I'll get around to installing VM over Hercules although I'm not sure that it's legal to do so. I have to check on that first. It sure would make life easier though. I am pretty confident that it is, *if* VM is running in Hercules which is running on a Linux instance which is a guest of VM on the system that VM is licensed to. No, this is not a practical way to run VM. But it WAS cool seeing z/VM 4.4 come up (very very very slowly) in 64- bit mode on a 31-bit H70! Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
Adam Thornton wrote: On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Paul Dembry wrote: OK. I'm not sure if this will help but I ran into a problem installing SUSE 9 under zVM 5.1. Could not get the dasd to partition. Or it seemed to partition but couldn't use it, it's been a while. Anyway, the way I got around it was to format the disks in CMS first, then start the install. The system then formatted them correctly and I was able to complete the install without any more problems. Thanks Bob. Someday I'll get around to installing VM over Hercules although I'm not sure that it's legal to do so. I have to check on that first. It sure would make life easier though. I am pretty confident that it is, *if* VM is running in Hercules which is running on a Linux instance which is a guest of VM on the system that VM is licensed to. No, this is not a practical way to run VM. But it WAS cool seeing z/VM 4.4 come up (very very very slowly) in 64- bit mode on a 31-bit H70! I tell you, he's a nut. Next he'll be telling you he's run Windows on his zBox. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:28 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Suse S390 help? Does this list deal at all with SUSE on S390? I'm trying to install SUSE S390 over the Hercules S390 emulator and am having a problem. Paul Maybe. Can't hurt to ask so, ask away. I have successfully installed SLES-10-RC3 on Hercules/390 running on an AMD Athlon64 running SLES 10.1 at home. As my college Russian teacher used to say: Easy! Easy! (she was a native Russian trying to teach Texans, poor lady!) As an aside: Your email reply to is set to yourself. Sometimes this is not the proper setting for email lists. Your call. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
Maybe. Can't hurt to ask so, ask away. I have successfully installed SLES-10-RC3 on Hercules/390 running on an AMD Athlon64 running SLES 10.1 at home. As my college Russian teacher used to say: Easy! Easy! (she was a native Russian trying to teach Texans, poor lady!) Thanks. I get all the way to the install when it is partitioning the drives and it fails trying to write the disk label on /dev/dasda. Your Russian teacher was correct, it was Easy! Easy! right up to this point. The error message is Storage Modification Failed System Error -1007 Trying to write disk label msdos to /dev/dasda Not obvious why SUSE would want to write a disk label of msdos to /dev/dasda. Regards, Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
What version of SUSE is this, by the way? That might be helpful. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? Maybe. Can't hurt to ask so, ask away. I have successfully installed SLES-10-RC3 on Hercules/390 running on an AMD Athlon64 running SLES 10.1 at home. As my college Russian teacher used to say: Easy! Easy! (she was a native Russian trying to teach Texans, poor lady!) Thanks. I get all the way to the install when it is partitioning the drives and it fails trying to write the disk label on /dev/dasda. Your Russian teacher was correct, it was Easy! Easy! right up to this point. The error message is Storage Modification Failed System Error -1007 Trying to write disk label msdos to /dev/dasda Not obvious why SUSE would want to write a disk label of msdos to /dev/dasda. Regards, Paul -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? Maybe. Can't hurt to ask so, ask away. I have successfully installed SLES-10-RC3 on Hercules/390 running on an AMD Athlon64 running SLES 10.1 at home. As my college Russian teacher used to say: Easy! Easy! (she was a native Russian trying to teach Texans, poor lady!) Thanks. I get all the way to the install when it is partitioning the drives and it fails trying to write the disk label on /dev/dasda. Your Russian teacher was correct, it was Easy! Easy! right up to this point. The error message is Storage Modification Failed System Error -1007 Trying to write disk label msdos to /dev/dasda Not obvious why SUSE would want to write a disk label of msdos to /dev/dasda. Regards, Paul The only question that comes to my mind is whether you told the installed to do a dasdfmt of the volume in question? The Hercules dasdinit is not sufficient (even though required) because it does not format the tracks into 4K records that z/Linux requires. Why msdos indeed? What filesystem type did you choose? I used ext3, not ResierFS. SUSE seems to be enamored of ResierFS for some reason. But I remember seeing messages here about it not being the best idea on the s390 version of z/Linux. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, McKown, John wrote: The only question that comes to my mind is whether you told the installed to do a dasdfmt of the volume in question?The Hercules dasdinit is not sufficient (even though required) because it does not format the tracks into 4K records that z/Linux requires. However, if you give dasdinit the -linux option, it will do the necessary formatting. SUSE seems to be enamored of ResierFS for some reason. But I remember seeing messages here about it not being the best idea on the s390 version of z/Linux. I don't know of anyone who recommends ReiserFS for general production use on any platform. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZChttp://www.conmicro.cx http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:37 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? snip I don't know of anyone who recommends ReiserFS for general production use on any platform. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZChttp://www.conmicro.cx As to that, all I can say is that the SUSE installer that I used has ReiserFS as the default filesystem and I had to remember to change it to ext3. Thanks for the -linux switch. I am likely behind in my Hercules/390 stuff due to lack to time to mess around any more. Too busy at work and too ill at home (anemia can really put one off). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
I recently installed Xandros Desktop 4 on my home PC, and it uses ReiserFS. (Okay, so maybe you can't call that 'Production' use.) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: September 28, 2006 14:37 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, McKown, John wrote: The only question that comes to my mind is whether you told the installed to do a dasdfmt of the volume in question?The Hercules dasdinit is not sufficient (even though required) because it does not format the tracks into 4K records that z/Linux requires. However, if you give dasdinit the -linux option, it will do the necessary formatting. SUSE seems to be enamored of ResierFS for some reason. But I remember seeing messages here about it not being the best idea on the s390 version of z/Linux. I don't know of anyone who recommends ReiserFS for general production use on any platform. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZChttp://www.conmicro.cx http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient or delegate is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. The integrity and security of this message cannot by guaranteed on the Internet. The Sender accepts no liability for the content of this e-mail, or for the consequences of any actions taken on basis of the information provided. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The sender accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. This disclaimer is the property of the TTC and must not be altered or circumvented in any manner. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
The only question that comes to my mind is whether you told the installed to do a dasdfmt of the volume in question? The Hercules dasdinit is not sufficient (even though required) because it does not format the tracks into 4K records that z/Linux requires. Why msdos indeed? What filesystem type did you choose? I used ext3, not ResierFS. SUSE seems to be enamored of ResierFS for some reason. But I remember seeing messages here about it not being the best idea on the s390 version of z/Linux. I used the -linux option on dasdinit but I think I did also use resierfs. I'm installing again using ext3 to see if that makes a difference. Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help? ReiserFS
I have implemented production workloads with an early version of ReiserFs, we did some analysis that showed ext3 and Reiser have different performance sweet spots, one works better for a large number of small files, the other works better for a small number of large files. The decision to go Reiser did cause problems when we encountered an error in Reiser lock which would hang our server with no indication why other than it was the filesystem caused hang. When the problem was identified and resolved (after 9 painful months) the performance was very good. Phil -- 'in media stat virtus' Virtue's in the middle -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
What version of SUSE is this, by the way? That might be helpful. SUSE 10.0 RC4 Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 13:36 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote: I don't know of anyone who recommends ReiserFS for general production use on any platform. There are people on this forum whom I respect a great deal, and who recommend against reiserfs on s390. Nevertheless I run reiserfs on three intelboxes 24x7, and I haven't seen filesystem corruption for 18 months. Based on that experience I like reiserfs on x86, if you have lots and lots of little files. I'll defer to the experts in the case of s390 with, perhaps, fewer small files and more large ones. (So Jay... now you know exactly ONE person who recommends reiserfs for general production use on ONE platform.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
The only question that comes to my mind is whether you told the installed to do a dasdfmt of the volume in question? The Hercules dasdinit is not sufficient (even though required) because it does not format the tracks into 4K records that z/Linux requires. Why msdos indeed? What filesystem type did you choose? I used ext3, not ResierFS. SUSE seems to be enamored of ResierFS for some reason. But I remember seeing messages here about it not being the best idea on the s390 version of z/Linux. I chose Ext3 this time, same problem. I had install format the drives during the System analysis phase when it found the drives. I Activate them, then Format them. BTW there is an option there, Use DIAG. What's DIAG? Should I have told it to dasdfmt in the partition screen? That's what I'll do next. It's a bit slow, about 30 minutes to format a 10GB 3390. Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:59 PM, David Andrews wrote: Based on that experience I like reiserfs on x86, if you have lots and lots of little files. I'll defer to the experts in the case of s390 with, perhaps, fewer small files and more large ones. I haven't been back to it in a long time. I was using it with a whole lot of very small files on s390. Under extreme load, eventually Reiserfs ate itself and died horrifically and unrecoverably. I was not pleased. This was about 2 years ago now, but, well, I have other filesystems that don't do that to me, so I haven't felt like trying Reiserfs again. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
I know that I succeeded with SLES-10-RC3 installation and I did, indeed, tell it to do a dasdfmt on the installation. And then I went to bed for the night. My Athlon64 3800+ gets about 25 emulated MIPS under Hercules. Do you recall if you had to lay out the partitions yourself? The installer always comes up saying that it cannot create an automatic proposal for disk partitioning (something like that). Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
I know that I succeeded with SLES-10-RC3 installation and I did, indeed, tell it to do a dasdfmt on the installation. And then I went to bed for the night. My Athlon64 3800+ gets about 25 emulated MIPS under Hercules. Hmm when I choose dasdfmt in the partition screen, I get the hourglass for a few seconds and then nothing. Continuing onward, it fails again with the same thing, trying to set the disk label of /dev/dasda to msdos. I installed Centos Linux on this Hercules as well other OSs and they work so I'm confident of our Hercules installation, there's just something about this SUSE. My next attempt is to dasdinit the 3390-9 again w/o -linux, not format it during the System Analysis phase, and tell it to dasdfmt during the partition phase. Do you recall what disk device type you used? I have them defined as 0120 3390 /hercules/suse390/dasd/linux.120 0121 3390 /hercules/suse390/dasd/linux.121 and in dasdinit, I used 3390-2 and 3390-9 as the device types. BTW I'm running Hercules on our SUSE 9 system. Thanks, Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
Yes. Jay said that the -linux option for dasdinit should do the same thing for you, but I think it's worth trying. If that works, when -linux didn't then you can file a bug report with Jay. :) If not, then we're definitely into unknown territory here. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:01 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? -snip- Should I have told it to dasdfmt in the partition screen? That's what I'll do next. It's a bit slow, about 30 minutes to format a 10GB 3390. Paul -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
David Andrews wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 13:36 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote: I don't know of anyone who recommends ReiserFS for general production use on any platform. There are people on this forum whom I respect a great deal, and who recommend against reiserfs on s390. Nevertheless I run reiserfs on three intelboxes 24x7, and I haven't seen filesystem corruption for 18 months. Based on that experience I like reiserfs on x86, if you have lots and lots of little files. I'll defer to the experts in the case of s390 with, perhaps, fewer small files and more large ones. (So Jay... now you know exactly ONE person who recommends reiserfs for general production use on ONE platform.) I'm sure there are lots of people for whom it works, but _I_ see too many reports of problems to be at all interested in using it. First time I installed a SUSE, I did get reiserfs, and did use it briefly. I like to chattr +a ~/.bash_history and my recollection is that that didn't work. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dembry Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:32 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? I know that I succeeded with SLES-10-RC3 installation and I did, indeed, tell it to do a dasdfmt on the installation. And then I went to bed for the night. My Athlon64 3800+ gets about 25 emulated MIPS under Hercules. Do you recall if you had to lay out the partitions yourself? The installer always comes up saying that it cannot create an automatic proposal for disk partitioning (something like that). Paul Yes, I always do my own partitioning! I'm really, really weird. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
I only use 3390-3 emulated DASD on Hercules. Who knows, some day I might actually be able to get a z/Linux system on my work zSeries machine. It would be nice to just backup my Hercules disk images in some manner which would allow them to be restored on real zSeries DASD and IPL'ed. Again, I'm weird. Hmm perhaps SUSE s390 has a problem with a 3390-9 ( 2GB?). Seems odd but I'll try it again. On my last try, I looked around before starting yast. I found fdasd and I used it to create my partitions, eg fdasd /dev/dasda fdasd /dev/dasdb I then started the yast install procedure. The System Information section found my drives as usual and also showed the partitions. But when I got to the actual install, it still insisted that it could not create a partition proposal and when I opened up the partitioning section, my partitions were not there. Perhaps a clue. Anyway I'll try with a smaller system DASD and see what happens. Once I get this to work, I would next like to get LVM to work as well. Thanks for all the help! If I can just get past this point, I think I will have it installed. Centos was nice but neither Oracle nor DB2 install on it. BTW are you running S390 or S390x SUSE? Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Suse S390 help?
I only use 3390-3 emulated DASD on Hercules. Who knows, some day I might actually be able to get a z/Linux system on my work zSeries machine. It would be nice to just backup my Hercules disk images in some manner which would allow them to be restored on real zSeries DASD and IPL'ed. Well using just 3390-3 dasds did not work either. This is really getting irritating. John, can you send me your hercules configuration file? Maybe I'm doing something stupid here. This is what I am using: # # Configuration file for Hercules emulator # CPUSERIAL 000611 CPUMODEL 3090 MAINSIZE 512 XPNDSIZE 0 CNSLPORT 3270 HTTPPORT 8081 NUMCPU 1 LOADPARM 0120 SYSEPOCH 1900 #TZOFFSET -0800 TODDRAG 1 ARCHMODE ESA/390 PANRATE FAST OSTAILOR LINUX #PGMPRDOS LICENSED # .-Device number # |.Device type # || .File name # || | # VV V #--- 000E 1403 print00e.txt crlf 001F 3270 0580 3420 ickdsf.ipl 0120 3390 /hercules/suse390/dasd/linux.120 0121 3390 /hercules/suse390/dasd/linux.121 0200 3270 0201 3270 0202 3270 0700 3270 3270 3215 0E20.2 CTCI -n /dev/net/tun 192.0.2.26 192.0.2.2 Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
