No, no, no, no.  There is absolutely no need to re-IPL your Linux/390 2.4
system to get new DASD in use.  Read the Installation Commands and Device
Drivers manual on how to interface with the kernel to do it dynamically.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: "Ant�nio Pires de Castro Jr." [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE SLES8 64-bit + dasdfmt


1 - Add a new disk in /etc/zipl.conf
...
parameters="dasd=0b0e,0b0f,0b10 root=/dev/dasda1"
...

new disc (dasdc)= 0b10


2 - Reboot your linux:

3 - Format disk:

dasdfmt -b 4096 -f /dev/dasdc

4 - Partitioning disk (create dasdc1):

fdasd /dev/dasdc

5 - Create a file system

mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/dasdc1

6 - Add new disk in the /etc/fstab

/dev/dasdc1   /opt   ext3  defaults   1 2


[]'s,
Anttnio.



Ceruti, Gerard G wrote:
> Hi Listners
>
> Perhaps you are able to point me in the right direction ,
> we are installing Suse8 in LPAR mode , I have got the load off the CD
> and am able to telnet to Linux,
> my problem is now how do I format the disks'
> I have done the 'insmod dasd_mode dasd=***,***' command
> but when I do a cat of /proc/dasd/devices it shows the disks as unknown
>
> any ideas
> Thanks
> Gerard
>
>
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