On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:23 -0400, Hall, Ken (GTS) wrote: > The installation on bare metal is tricky (as those of us who have > installed under Hercules have found) and requires access to the HMC for > possibly many sessions to get things right so it will come up and > install.
Installing Debian from the HMC cupholder was pretty easy; I got it done in an afternoon. What's more time-consuming is getting the LPAR defined, with the DASD device addresses properly isolated from your production system(s). Took me several iterations with HCD to get it right, and much longer than it took to install Debian itself. (HCD and I don't get along all that well.) There might be some downtime associated with creating a new LPAR, depending on your dynamic-reconfiguration-fu and whether you've got spare memory to carve out. I'm not VM-literate, so it took me less time to build the LPAR than it would have taken me to install and learn VM. (Not to mention that I'd have had to convince someone to pay for it.) DB has a litany of reasons for using z/VM in your Linux farm, and you should generally listen to anything he says... but for my modest purposes a single little LPAR works just fine. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
