Re: Vdisk for swap rhel

2004-03-15 Thread Karsten Hopp
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:56:19PM -0500, Steve Gentry wrote: I'm running RHEL AS and I'm trying to set up a V-DISK swap file. VM definition goes ok; I do a format and then a reserve. When I try and do a dasdfmt I get the following: you don't have to run dasdfmt on a V-DISK. Just run

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread Kern, Thomas
I don't think you should list any distribution until you can also list a user report on a successful installation (a test install will suffice). Then you should list a link to the distribution AND the user report. There should be some indication of a support level, vendor, third-party, paddle

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 01:14, Post, Mark K wrote: While I'm all for choice, I'm leery of putting links on the page that might send people off into a dead-end effort. Obscure isn't bad. For all the airplay that RH and SuSE get around here, one might conclude that Debian, Turbolinux and Marist

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread David Boyes
I would be interested in hearing what everyone has to think about adding this, and Fedora, to the list of distributions available on the linuxvm.org web site. (I'm specifically thinking about the part along the left side of each page.) Wait until someone other than the distributor has

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread Tom Shilson
I vote for a new and unproven section with appropriate caveats. Personal to David B: I learned about Bog on audio tape, and I always thought it was Bob. May Zarquon bless you. (Spelling corrections invited.) _/) Tom Shilson ~GEDW VM System Services Aloha

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-15 Thread Eric Sammons
All these solutions look very straight forward, I actually in the past have setup my initrd etc. . . on the VM guest (SLES8 EXEC) and executed a boot as if to install a new guest the hard way. This method works best for me because I am using LVM and Reiserfs. So the ways mentioned before would

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread David Boyes
Personal to David B: I learned about Bog on audio tape, and I always thought it was Bob. Nay, two very different anime...8-) Bog is from early Slavic legend (cf 'bogatyri' (godling lords) and the derivation of the words for king and god in the various Russian dialects). If you want, we can do

Re: Certifying prodcuts on linux over multiple platorms

2004-03-15 Thread Jim Sibley
Dave wrote: AFS tracks the OS releases pretty well. For the last two major AFS releases, it's been about a week lag at worst, if notb available first day (depending on how cooperative the vendors have been on granting access to new platforms and OSes). Therein lies the rub. We start some of the

NEUVM Winter Meeting - Recap, Photos, Presentations and Member Survey

2004-03-15 Thread Michael Coffin
Cross-posted on NEUVM-L, LINUX-390 and VMESA-L - please forward as appropriate. Hi Folks, Apologies for the huge delay in getting this information out, I've been tied up with a z/VM 4.4 migration and Disaster Recovery exercise. NEUVM presented it's Winter Meeting on January 13, 2004 at

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 15 March 2004 07:14, Post, Mark K wrote: While I'm all for choice, I'm leery of putting links on the page that might send people off into a dead-end effort.  Hence, I wanted to hear from other people what they think.  If most people think they're worthwhile, I'm happy to do it.  If a

Re: VSWITCH network

2004-03-15 Thread Davis, Larry
First Thanks to everyone for there inputs. Here is what I had to do to get the basic VSWITCH setup going In the PROFILE TCPIP file (TCPMAINT 198'D' disk) added VSWITCH CONTROLLER ON 0C5C 0C5E For each User connecting to the switch, I added this directory entry to the corresponding USER

Re: Hillgang Meeting

2004-03-15 Thread Rosti, Ken
Hello folks, Ken Rosti will be attending the April 8 Hillgang meeting. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ferguson, Neale Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hillgang Meeting The brochure for the next

Re: More on Fedora...

2004-03-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2004-03-14 at 18:47, Steve Gentry wrote: FWIW. I downloaded Fedora about a month ago to my pc at home. It installed ok, but I had problems with it after that.It got so messed up that I went back to RH9 and have been running fine with it. A friend of mine a similar experience

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread Alan Cox
Fedora is packages built mostly to check they still build on that platform. In the absence of an installer and kernel its probably not stunningly useful -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

New Presentations on the Web Site

2004-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
I've added five (5) more presentations from SHARE 102 to the website: Session Presenter Title 9236 Ulrich Weigand Linux on zSeries ABI and Linkage Format 9241 Ulrich Weigand Understanding Linux Memory Management 9257 Jens Osterkamp Linux Filesystems 9300 Jens

Recommended SWAPGEN update

2004-03-15 Thread David Boyes
Note that Sine Nomine has a very nice CMS REXX exec to put the swap signature on the VDISK before IPLing Linux, so that Linux will just be able to do its usual swapon -a command during normal startup. Check on their downloads page for it. It's called SWAPGEN. Since Mark posted these kind

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Hitt
I did a test install over the weekend of Tao Linux and it went very smoothly. In fact, I did it twice. Anaconda is the installer. I did an FTP install across a CTC and out to a machine where I'd combined the two binary ISOs as described at lines 43-47 of the README file on the first CD. I

Re: VSWITCH network

2004-03-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 03/15/2004 at 01:44 EST, Davis, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VSWITCH CONTROLLER ON 0C5C 0C5E Unless you intend to add a VSWITCH CONTROLLER statement for each VSWITCH, or have to change it when the real address changes, I suggest using the generic VSWITCH CONTROLLER specification