well, i got the linux tape ipled! first major hurdle over.
i've been trying to figure out how to get my network enabled on the tape
system so i can ftp a better file system onto my dasd. so far all i get is
"network unavailable". we have an mp3000 with an escon connected 2216
connected to ethernet. so far, all the escon subchannels are mpc+
protocol. i gather linux will only talk lcs, so i have to define an lcs
subchannel, right? how does linux detect the correct 2216 device address
to use? during the tape ipl, it just asks what kind of interface i have, i
reply escon, and it uses "escon0" (whatever that is) and carries on. does
it autodetect it somehow?
i'm fairly new to linux (although i've done some support of various
flavours of unix over the years), so i'm a bit of a fish out of water at
the moment.
Robin Murray
Tel: (902) 453-7300 x4177
Cell: (902) 430-0637
"Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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08/23/2004 08:18 PM
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Subject: Re: ipling initial linux tape
Hmm. IPLing from tape is a gigantic pain, just for reasons like this.
Make
sure you rewind in-between each attempt.
You might also want to create a .tdf file that points to the three starter
files and try to IPL from an emulated tape drive, since this is an MP3K.
The Marist file system that is currently on their web site is extremely
out
of date. You might want to take a look at some of the other options, such
as Debian for S/390, Slack/390, Tao Linux for S/390, etc.
Finally, I didn't answer your question about searchable archives. Yes,
there is one at the bottom of http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?linux-390
Be warned, that it is very slow. That's why I make gzip-compressed copies
available at http://linuxvm.org/archives/ so that people can download them,
uncompress them, and search them on their local desktop system. There is
an
unofficial archive at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.html that some
people find useful.
Mark Post
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Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: ipling initial linux tape
no, this is the kernal i downloaded from marist. i don't think this is a
linux problem, i don't think it's even getting to linux. but i thought
perhaps someone else has run across this...
Robin Murray
Tel: (902) 453-7300 x4177
Cell: (902) 430-0637
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