I don't know that there's so much an advantage of one distribution over the other. The decision can boil down to a few things: company standard, price, personal preference, maybe more. If your corporate standard dictates that you run a certain distribution, then this problem is essentially solved. If not, then another consideration is price. Not all distribuitions are priced equally. All of them are pure Linux, but the distributor add-ons vary.
Before the initial install system is IPLed, there is a parameter that can/should be used to limit the disk addresses that Linux will be able to use. It will sense them all, but will only be able to use the ones that you tell it. On Friday 07 March 2003 09:38 am, you wrote: > Hi all, > > We want to install LINUX on our G5 in LPAR mode. I have a couple of basic > questions... > > 1) What LINUX distribution is the most popular for the S390? > Advantages/disadvantages? > > 2) The extra LPAR that we have setup, has an IOCP definition that shares > ALL disk drives with our OS/390 production LPAR. How can we ensure that > LINUX will not touch our production disks? > > Thanks in advance! > > Mike Martin > Systems Programmer > Wake Med Information Services > 3000 New Bern Ave. > Raleigh, N.C. 27610 > (919)-350-8458 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Sytek Services, A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
