SLES8 install problem

2005-05-24 Thread Greg Smith
systems. Seems I need to get you updated to be able to connect to /download but the youfix url isn't valid anymore. Can I download the necessary rpms from the suse portal site ? Thanks, Greg Smith -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: SLES8 install problem

2005-05-24 Thread Greg Smith
Little, Chris wrote: Aren't there issues with s390/SLES 8 YOU? Like it doesn't work? Hmmm ... I do seem to recall something about that. What I did was goto http://sdb.suse.de/downloads/s390/update/SuSE-SLES/8/rpm/s390 (requires login) and manually downloaded the latest yast2-online rpm.

Re: boot problem with Slack390

2005-04-06 Thread Greg Smith
Post, Mark K wrote: For sure, the kernel and initrd are binary files. The parmfile can be either ASCII or EBCDIC, from Linux's perspective. What Hercules needs, I cannot say. Actually, I find it easier to do a `cd' ipl, for example ipl ../sles9/installroot/sles9/CD1/boot/suse.ins Greg Smith

Re: boot problem with Slack390

2005-04-06 Thread Greg Smith
: ramdisk_size=22528 root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off Highest subchannel number detected (hex) : 000A Calibrating delay loop... 24.06 BogoMIPS Greg Smith -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: SLES 9 ISO mount structure, not sure?

2005-02-23 Thread Greg Smith
loop SLES-9-s390x-RC5-CD4.iso installroot/core9/CD3 mount -t iso9660 -o loop SLES-9-s390x-RC5-CD5.iso installroot/core9/CD4 mount -t iso9660 -o loop SLES-9-s390x-RC5-CD6.iso installroot/core9/CD5 Greg Smith Patrick B. O'Brien wrote: This is my SuSe 9 mount structure; I get all the way to the point

Re: CAN-2004-0887

2004-10-25 Thread Greg Smith
is implemented using the svc instruction 4) cow is implementing by forcing program interrupt 0x04 on write Greg Smith -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

CAN-2004-0887

2004-10-22 Thread Greg Smith
Can't find any info on this but it is mentioned here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.2/2264.html Greg -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

virtual machine vs lpar

2004-08-31 Thread Greg Smith
of action. What I need is some published verbiage discussing the `boundaries' between virtual machines and citations (if any) where multiple lpars running z/vm) are preferable over a a single lpar running z/vm (disregarding any performance aspects). Thanks, Greg Smith

Re: virtual machine vs lpar

2004-08-31 Thread Greg Smith
Kern, Thomas wrote: Try this for z/VM security. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/library/techpapers/gm130145.html Wow, this is precisely what I was looking for. Good job, Alan !! Greg Smith -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Linus lied; stole unix code and called it linux

2004-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
It must be true, I read it on the internet: http://www.adti.net/kenarbeit/samiz.release.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/17/adti_linux_fud/ http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/17/112218.shtml?tid=109tid=126tid=163tid=187 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040517002423242 Greg Smith

Re: Linus lied; stole unix code and called it linux

2004-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
Fargusson.Alan wrote: I found the press release hard to follow. They seem to be saying that in the future they will publish a book that might say that Linus could have stolen Unix. Is that what you think they are saying? -Original Message- From: Greg Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sles8 sp3 iso's?

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Smith
3 (SP3) Looks like it's going to take a while ;-) Greg Smith

weird connection problem on sles8

2003-09-30 Thread Greg Smith
Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 134.67.180.140 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 134.67.180.141 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 linux05:~ # Does anyone have any ideas ?? Thanks, Greg Smith

Bad news for OpenOffice ;-)

2003-09-05 Thread Greg Smith
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1414247mode=threadtid=16 Also check out IBM's latest commercial: http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html Greg Smith

Re: Wine on Linux for S/390

2003-06-18 Thread Greg Smith
Froberg, David C wrote: Folks, Question about Wine. Can it run on S/390 arch. machines? Doc seems to indicate 'no'. Perhaps it could in the sense that you could run an ia32 emulator on s/390. See, for example, http://www.fsf.net/~adam/NT-on-390-desktop.png ;-) Greg Smith

Re: Time Sync

2003-06-04 Thread Greg Smith
would be updated. Likewise if running natively in an lpar. However, looking at the current code (2.4.19 + patches up thru #5) it only looks like the adjtime code adjusts the offset that is applied to current tod clock (as returned by stck) so the `real' clock is not affected at all. Greg Smith

Re: Turnkey?

2003-04-01 Thread Greg Smith
Adam Thornton wrote: Now, if I understand you correctly, what you're looking for is basically a small Linux distro which includes Hercules which has its own small Linux distro bundled with it? That's an interesting idea. About a year ago Richard Higson was working on something similar. The idea

Re: Linux-hosted turnkey (Re: Turnkey?)

2003-04-01 Thread Greg Smith
Matt Zimmerman wrote: With bzip2 compression, it should be possible to fit a useful set of demo images on a normal CD-ROM. When creating a system like this (where space is the concern, not performance) on hercules 2.17 or above, you should enter the console command `cckd nostress=1' to disable

Re: dasd.c fix?

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Smith
distributions currently have these fixes. Check out http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/overview24.shtml Greg Smith

mproute on z/VM

2002-12-03 Thread Greg Smith
from mproute the `designated router' shows up as 0.0.0.0. On z/OS the designated router matches the destination address. Are we doing something wrong here ? Thanks, Greg Smith

Re: CPU Arch Security [was: Re: Probably the first published shell code]

2002-11-05 Thread Greg Smith
Linas Vepstas wrote: I've always been curious. Why is a top down stack used anyways ?? If the heap grows up, and the stack grows down, then one can have, in theory, arbitrarily large stacks. Handy for CPU's that have a single flat memory space that is not very big Ahhh Now if someone

Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390

2002-10-31 Thread Greg Smith
Ross Patterson wrote: At 11:08 10/30/2002 -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: And the key point here is that getting in simply requires modifying known exploits against vulnerable software with an S/390-specific payload. But it didn't have to be this way. If Linas Vepstas et al. had been able to

Re: Probably the first published shell code example for Linux/390

2002-10-31 Thread Greg Smith
Ward, Garry wrote: Simplicity? push something to the stack, decrement the address, and if you've gone negative, you've gone too far? PUSH DEC BN stack overrun BZ stack overrun I've always been curious. Why is a top down stack used anyways ?? I understand that much but why did Intel

Re: Uncensored Redbook Pointer

2002-04-20 Thread Greg Smith
that it would be a good idea if the systems have been ipled once before being burned so that those startup scripts that run on the first ipl have already been run (these take a while). Greg Smith

Re: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File?

2002-04-18 Thread Greg Smith
Jay Maynard wrote: The limit is that the cylinder number is a halfword, and exceeding that breaks a LOT of things. There are even today things you can't put on a 3390-9 beyond cylinder 65535 (the JES2 spool dataset springs immediately to mind). Minor nit. On MVS a single extent cannot

Re: How to pre-allocate a 4GB File?

2002-04-18 Thread Greg Smith
John Summerfield wrote: Not quite - the key for this purpose is included in the length of the data block. (65535 * 255 * 65535) is still fairly large. More than 2.3 Gbytes. Don't think so. CKD stands for count,key,data. Each record on a track has a count area, optional key area and

Re: OK who messed with the redbook?

2002-04-15 Thread Greg Smith
James Melin wrote: If anyone feels like e-mailing me the PDF of the redbook with* the hercules stuff in it, please do. Try ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/s390/docs/ or a related mirror site. Greg Smith

2.4.17 experimental kernel

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Smith
I am trying to upgrade a fairly recent rh 72 system (249-17) to the experimental 2417 kernel, so I can play around with the dasdc bug I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I've performed the following steps: cd /usr/src tar xzf ~/linux-2417targz mv linux linux-2417 patch -p0 ~/linux-2417-s390-diff

dasdfmt error under hercules

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Smith
on a real machine. It is possible for the i/o interrupt to be pending as soon as ssch completes. We have kludged around the problem by coding a wait before marking the i/o interrupt pending. Thanks, Greg Smith 0 dasd_eckd_format_device 0 dasd_alloc_request 0 ccw_alloc_request 0

Re: After ZIPL - getting Kernel panic VFS unable to mount root fs

2002-01-18 Thread Greg Smith
For some reason the linux kernel won't pass parameters it recognizes to the init script. The kernel parameters, then, are lowercase while the init script parameters are uppercase. Greg Dave Myers wrote: In a message dated 1/18/2002 10:31:34 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ICKDSF bootstrap with Redhat 2.4.9 images - IPL Looping

2002-01-16 Thread Greg Smith
Some of the offsets in the parameter area changed between kernel releases. Try the current release at http://pucc.princeton.edu/~rvdheij/linuxipl.txt Greg Dave Myers wrote: I am creating a disk IPL volume using Redhat 2.4.9 and ICKDSF, per the Distribution redbook. I used this method for