On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:53:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > > > Well, there are two approaches. Either one or both together works. > > > > 1. Install any distribution on your laptop. One that has panels to > > make things easier, really helps in getting Linux up and possibly > > usefull. (doesn't IBM have a mainframe that has Linux accounts? It may > > be for developers, but even a developer has to get his feet wet > > sometime.) Then start to branch out, away from the panels to understand > > what actually goes on.
One important thing: remote administration. Try doing everything from a different computer. Working with the linux/s390 as a nice KDE desktop is theoretically possible, but nt a good idea. > > I would have 2 copies installed on the laptop, > > with Partition Magic used. Just because with PM, you can effectively > > DDR one PC partition to another partition, I.E. create and refresh your > > test system that you can bomb at will. If you want a nice (though non-free) program to help you with that, there is vmware. > > You don't need pm to do backups. You _might_ need it to resize your > partition, but as far as possible use Linux tools. > > I resized a Windows 98 partition using FIPS which came with Red Hat > Linux. I backed uo the whole drive first, using dd to copy it to a file > across the LAN, gzip to compress the file and cdrecord (maybe mkiosfs > too) to create a CD. > > All standard Linux tools. > Also try parted and (for the GUI touch) qtparted. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
