Re: Max number of dasd devices

2002-10-11 Thread Ihno Krumreich
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:16:57AM -0600, James Johnson wrote: Is there a max number of dasd devices that can be attached to a Linux machine? Hi, the number of dasd is limited by the number of free major numbers. With the default majornumber 94 you can attach 64 dasds. From there on the

Re: Samba Quota function works well with SuSE ?

2002-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:02, Michiyasu Takada wrote:. As far as I know, Samba 2.2.x has a problem regarding quota with Linus kernel, and only Red Hat Linux with Alan Cox patch can handle this function. This customer is thinking of using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 or 8 (which will be

IUCV on new z/VM for RHSETUP

2002-10-11 Thread Chet Norris
I'm trying to get RedHat 7.2 loaded into a Linux image on a z/VM system whose only reason for existence is to get Linux running. I have received the initial kernel, initrd, rpm and exec files and have IPL'ed the starter Linux image. I have defined my new z/VM system to look as close to the

Re: IUCV on new z/VM for RHSETUP

2002-10-11 Thread Carlos A. Bodra
Chet, I4m using Suse 7.2 under VM/ESA and seems to me that there is a Device and Link that isn4t necessary: device tcpip iucv 0 0 tcpip a link tcpip iucv 0 tcpip Other aspect is that your device and link for linux images has the same names Following is my definitions in tcpip profile. 139 ;

DIFF Utility for Binary Files?

2002-10-11 Thread Jeffrey C Barnard
Is there a DIFF type utility for comparing 2 binary files and creating a change file? Regards, Jeff -- Jeffrey C Barnard Barnard Software, Inc. http://www.bsiopti.com Phone 407-323-4773 Fax 407-323-4775

Re: Linux Analyst Day

2002-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 01:41, Ulrich Weigand wrote: Indeed. It still won't be trivial I guess; even on first glance I can see a couple of iffy issues: - Getting up and running. The 'let's start JITing the return from a constructor all through ld.so' is cute, but won't work cross-platform.

Samba Quota function works well with SuSE ?

2002-10-11 Thread Michiyasu Takada
Hi all, My customer is going to migrate their Windows file servers into Samba running LINUXs on zSeries, but they are worried about the quota function Samba provides. As far as I know, Samba 2.2.x has a problem regarding quota with Linus kernel, and only Red Hat Linux with Alan Cox patch can

Re: NSS-Support for Linux Kernel under VM

2002-10-11 Thread Rick Troth
When its done, you'll be in CP READ and you or anyone else will be able to issue CP IPL system_name to start up your shared system. One caveat. Every virtual machine that ipls your shared system must have the same disk configuration as the system that was saved. That is, the disks must be at

BuildKernrl 2.4.19

2002-10-11 Thread Eddie Chen
I am having problem when I IPL 2.4.19 and getting message: 7[1A[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8Checking file systems... Parallelizing fsck version 1.19a (13-Jul-2000) fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/dasda1 (null): The superblock could not be read or does not describe a

Antwort: Max number of dasd devices

2002-10-11 Thread Jim Sibley
Udo wrote: so additional major numbers (typically descending from 254) are allocated Doesn't this conflict with the tape major numbers? What is their range? Regards, Jim *** grace happens ***

Re: Linux Analyst Day

2002-10-11 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Alan Cox wrote: You only need enough code to load the x86 ld.so and run it. Doh. Of course, this makes it much easier, you basically need only the equivalent of binfmt_elf. That one is actually doable within limits very cheaply indeed. When you generate the virtual instruction sequence you