Re: SuSE Linux - TOC

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Chapman
Thanks! That does look very helpful. And easier to understand than Amanda! Scott Chapman John Summerfield summer@computerdatasa To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fe.com.au cc: Sent by: Linux on

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 14:33 27-01-03 -0800, Marcy Cortes wrote: Any one else been through this? How much does it want? The README says 1.3G is sufficient for a 31-bit install. And you did select that formatted disk as the one to hold your / filesystem? You did not by mistake tell YaST to put all on your 60 MB

Re: SuSE Linux - TOC

2003-01-28 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 27 January 2003 17:31, Scott Chapman wrote: Performance needs to be tracked from VM's perspective, and maybe from Linux's. Therefore some sort of VM monitor like RTM (not necessarily a recommendation!) or Velocity Software's product is probably required. I believe Candle also has

Re: A bit more momentum

2003-01-28 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:23, John Summerfield wrote: As I understand it, Linux, Alan and a few others are here in Perth just now. Linus ITYM 8) And yes we had a very good technical event in Australia (LCA2003) while the press were all looking the other way. They missed Linus (in a penguin suit

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2003-01-28 Thread John Summerfield
Postgresql chosen in preference to O and D. http://www.computerworld.com.au/idg2.nsf/All/2ADD84E6EBCEADE9CA256CB30075FA01!OpenDocument -- Cheers John. Join the Linux Support by Small Businesses list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Rob wrote: Any one else been through this? How much does it want? The README says 1.3G is sufficient for a 31-bit install. And you did select that formatted disk as the one to hold your / filesystem? You did not by mistake tell YaST to put all on your 60 MB swap disk? It comes back and says

Re: SuSE Linux - TOC

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
The missing word was running. And I'm talking about DRA backups here, of perhaps multiple hundreds of Linux/390 instances on z/VM. In this scenario, a full volume backup of the entire z/VM system, read-only minidisks or otherwise, is _very_ useful. It allows me to run one set of tapes, get the

Re: 2 questions: How to add gifabit OSA, and kernel crash after s amba installed

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Bill, The problem was patched in 2.2.5, so 2.2.6 should have the fix incorporated. Samba 2.2.7 had some nice fixes for printing support (better automatic downloading of drivers to Windows clients, etc.) included, so I would recommend going to that version if you choose to upgrade it. Mark Post

Re: A bit more momentum

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
There _had_ to be some pictures taken of that. If you happen to see one on the 'net (or have one of your own), I'd appreciate the URL. :) Mark Post -Original Message- From: Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A bit

Re: samba config help needed

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Doug, What does your /etc/printcap file look like? The error you get looks as though that file's not quite right. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Doug Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: samba config help needed

Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Alex Leyva
Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im not sure about the 64 or 31 bits, im downloading it from: ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/s390x/, in the 7.2 directory i only found s390, and looking at the mirror list (http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html) i see that the directory is

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Jim Elliott
Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im not sure about the 64 or 31 bits, im downloading it from: ... Alex: I would recommend you get the 7.2 31-bit version. Very few applications need 64-bit yet (mySAP.com comes to mind) and most vendor software is only supported on the 31-bit version

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Alex, You've almost got it right. s390x is 64 bits, s390 is 31 bits. The latest GA 64-bit release is the 7.1/s390x version. The latest GA 31-bit release is 7.2/s390. When the mirror.html file was updated, it was done incorrectly. All versions were changed to 8.0, even though that doesn't

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Beinert, William
7.2 is at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/s390/ Bill -Original Message- From: Alex Leyva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x? Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Steven Adams
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 08:29, you wrote: Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im not sure about the 64 or 31 bits, im downloading it from: ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/s390x/, in the 7.2 directory i only found s390, and looking at the mirror list

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Alex Leyva
Jim: But what will happen when the applications will need 64 bits? how dificult the migration will be? thanks On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jim Elliott wrote: Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im not sure about the 64 or 31 bits, im downloading it from: ... Alex: I would recommend you

Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Abdel Gharzita
A HOWTO document on www.linuxvm.org describes how to use V-disk for swap. I followed the instruction as outlined on RedHat 7.2, but failed when issuing dasdfmt command: I received the following message: dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -f /dev/dasdb dasdfmt: Unsupported disk type /dev/dasdb is not an ECKD

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Jim Elliott
But what will happen when the applications will need 64 bits? how dificult the migration will be? Alex: Good question. The decision is do you want to run supported vendor software now or avoid a migration in the future. I don't expect the migration to be difficult, but I can't speak from

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Dave Myers wrote: What do these commands show before you start the actual rpm installs. cat /proc/dasd/devices 0201(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize: 4096, 600840 blocks, 2347 MB 0202(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : active at blocksize: 4096, 600840 blocks, 2347 MB mount rootfs

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
There is no need to run dasdfmt against a vdisk. Just mkswap and swapon and it works. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Abdel Gharzita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2 A HOWTO document on

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Alex Leyva wrote: Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im not sure about the 64 or 31 bits, im downloading it from: ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/s390x/, in the 7.2 directory i only found s390, and looking at the mirror list

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
A fuller reply would have stated... The original HOWTO was written for SuSE 7.0, which had a 2.2.16 kernel. I'm not positive (I didn't write the HOWTO) the dasdfmt was really needed there. In the 2.4 kernel series, the DASD driver has been changed significantly. It should not be necessary to run

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Myers
I know you're already aware of the README warning (I appended below for other to see). But, it sure looks to me like you're running into the warning in that 5th paragraph, where is states: Only after you have used 'dasdfmt', can you then accept the DASD Module Parameter Setting using the

Re: samba config help needed

2003-01-28 Thread Doug Clark
Everyone, Thanks for your help. The command in the smb.conf did not match the name I had in the printcap file. Doug -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:51 AM To: 'Linux on 390 Port'; 'Doug Clark' Subject: RE: samba config

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Abdel Gharzita
That works! Thanks Mark. If I need to have this swap on whenever Linux is ipled, do I still need to do mkswap and the swapon? What's the equivalent to SuSE's /sbin.init.d/boot on RH? Thank you Abdel Gharzita Pace Univerity

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Abdel, What some people have done is capture the swapfile signature that gets written (at 7766 octal??), and written that to a CMS file on the guest's 191 disk. Then, just before the guest IPLs Linux, it writes that signature out to the vdisk. Then, the only thing that needs to be done in the

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:53:07PM -0500, Abdel Gharzita wrote: That works! Thanks Mark. If I need to have this swap on whenever Linux is ipled, do I still need to do mkswap and the swapon? What's the equivalent to SuSE's /sbin.init.d/boot on RH? Well, what we generally do is IPL CMS, do

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Don't know about SuSE, but mkswap and swapon works just fine on my TurboLinux 2.2.16 kernel. Maybe with 2.2.x you could dasdfmt a FBA device even though it wasn't necessary, or it just ignored you silently! Good Luck! Dennis Post, Mark K

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Dave wrote: I don't see any partitions in your displays. What does cat /proc/partitions show?? I did the load module without the accept yet and then came in with SSH to root and then did the dasdfmt, fdasd, then hit the accept button. Here's what cat /proc/partitions says: major minor #blocks

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Myers
hmmm...you did it the way I did it then and when you use yast2 to mount / to /dev/dasda1 that seem to work ok? Dave Myers Denver Solutions Group Senior Systems Engineer Office Phone:   (303) 996-7112 Cellular Phone: (303) 619-0782 Home Office:    (303) 948-0027 Fax: 

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Dave wrote: hmmm...you did it the way I did it then and when you use yast2 to mount / to /dev/dasda1 that seem to work Yep, that seemed to work and the DASD appeared under the Partitions area, but still in the sw area it said there was not enough space. I still haven't heard back from

Re: SLES8 Install problem

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Myers
uhuhmy initial contact with SuSE support did no go too well. They kept asking for a 14digit product code before they would give me support and they couldn't communicate to me where exactly that code resides. By the time we sent 3 or 4 emails back and forth...I had worked my way through my

Re: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2

2003-01-28 Thread Abdel Gharzita
Mark, Here are the steps I did to get V-disk work on Redhat 7.2 ( thanks to you) - Add a MDISK statement to Linux directory: MDISK 0151 FB-512 V-DISK 3 MR LINUX SWAP DASD - Add the following to linux PROFILE EXEC: QUEUE '1' QUEUE 'LXSWAP' 'FORMAT 151 E ( BLK 4096' IF RC 0 THEN

Global symbols

2003-01-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I have some source files that I compile and link together to make a shared library (called sharedLib.so). They share a global variable called, for example, GlobalVar which is defined in one of the source files (called sharedMain.c). I then have another set of source files that I compile and link

Re: Global symbols

2003-01-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The -Bsymbolic flag appears to do what I need.

z/VM Linux Guests using Hipersockets....

2003-01-28 Thread Ketchens, LeMarr T. (RyTull)
For some reason, we can not get our HiperSockets to work. We are trying to use virtual hipersockets, but I was wondering if it would be better to use actual Physical HiperSockets. I really need some help. From examples within the PROFILE TCPIP (DEVICE LINK, HOME and GATEWAY) to the IFCONFIGs

Re: z/VM Linux Guests using Hipersockets....

2003-01-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:37:08PM -0600, Ketchens, LeMarr T. (RyTull) wrote: For some reason, we can not get our HiperSockets to work. We are trying to use virtual hipersockets, but I was wondering if it would be better to use actual Physical HiperSockets. I really need some help. From

Another z/VM Linux Guests using Hipersockets Question

2003-01-28 Thread Steven Adams
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:52, you wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:37:08PM -0600, Ketchens, LeMarr T. (RyTull) wrote: For some reason, we can not get our HiperSockets to work. We are trying to use virtual hipersockets, but I was wondering if it would be better to use actual Physical

Re: Help needed with Debian/390 under hercules configuration errors

2003-01-28 Thread Vic Cross
On 28.01.2003 at 16:18:43, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When initial configuration runs (when you telnet into it), http://192.168.0.1:3128 will be given as the _default_ proxy address, but you are prompted to change it and it is not used for anything until after this point.

Re: Another z/VM Linux Guests using Hipersockets Question

2003-01-28 Thread Adam Thornton
We have not gotten to the point of implementing Hipersockets yet but we are planning to. In reading about them, I ran into a list of will not do's. In that list was IP broadcast traffic, an ARP requirement. Is this still the case? If not, can someone please tell me the appropriate redbook(s)

Re: Help needed with Debian/390 under hercules configuration errors

2003-01-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:34:25PM +1000, Vic Cross wrote: On 28.01.2003 at 16:18:43, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When initial configuration runs (when you telnet into it), http://192.168.0.1:3128 will be given as the _default_ proxy address, but you are prompted to change it