I attended Share last week and I followed the Linux/390 track. I want to
thank all of you who presented, all presentations were excellent and very
informative. Share was especially "special" since I got to spend time with
an old friend, Scott Courtney. Scott you and your talents are missed and it
was great seeing you again. Now to my question.
Since I returned from Share I have been trying to install the Marist
distribution on our VM processor. I attended the installation workshop at
Share, which was fantastic, but in the workshop we used IUCV for the TCP/IP.
In fact from Nashville I had started the installation and had gotten to the
point of needing to ftp the Linux filesystem tar file into the Linux virtual
machine, but I did not have a TCP/IP connection for my virtual machine. When
I returned to work I approached our VM system programmer and he tells me I
should be using the OSA Adapter. Well being a Unix Systems Administrator
this was foreign to me. So I started looking for information on doing the
install with the OSA adapter.
I have downloaded the LCS manual and Linux/390 Installation Guide from the
Marist website. I have reviewed the Linux-390 list archives and have used
Alan Altmark's handouts form his "Connecting to Linux for S/390"
presentation.
Currently I am able to punch the kernel, parm file, and ram disk file to the
reader and ipl giving me Linux with a ram disk. I respond "yes" to the
network question, I select 2 for OSA Ethernet, and pass the following lcs
parameters:
noauto=1 devno_portno_pairs=0x5002,0
I then respond to the remaining questions as I would for any other host on
the same subnet. The messages that follow all respond with a "OK". I did
have an error that stated the resource was busy, that went away when I used
0x5002,0 instead of 0x5002,1. the Dedicate statement in the virtual machine
definition is:
DEDICATE 5002 5002
DEDICATE 5003 5003
When I try to ping the Linux virtual machine using the IP address the
request times out.
When I run the ifconfig command in the Linux virtual machine I see that the
RX packets continue to increase while the TX packets remain very close to
zero for "eth0"
Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thomas L. Geyer
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:(330) 471-2073
Fax:(330) 471-4034
**********************************************************************
This message and any attachments are intended for the
individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended
recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this
communication to others; also please notify the sender by
replying to this message, and then delete it from your system.
The Timken Company
**********************************************************************
