Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Payne
Mike, You may find this useful. http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installation_Guide/pt-install-info-s390.html Sections 16.7, 16.8, and 16.9 are LPAR specific. -Justin On 11/30/2009 07:47 PM, Mike Myers wrote: Justin: Thanks for the links. I had already foun

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Myers
Justin: Thanks for the links. I had already found the Virtualization Cookbook, but it is heavily oriented towards z/VM. I am trying to simulate an LPAR installation with Hercules, because neither my client nor I have z/VM and I plan to install RHEL in an LPAR there once I have pretty well mastere

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Payne
Mike, Since Tom brought it up, here is the link to the Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247492.html?Open You may also want to keep the following handy, lots of useful information. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/portals/

Re: sles11 install question

2009-11-30 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/26/2009 at 10:30 AM, Marian Gasparovic wrote: > Hi, > when installing SLES via NFS I used to point parmfile directly to .iso image > of SLES DVD, without loopmounting it. But on SLES11 I am getting an error. > > Loading file:/mounts/mp_/SLES-11-DVD-s390x-GM-DVD1.iso - failed > >

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Since you are a newbie I don't think anyone mentioned this but there are IBM Redbooks that walk you thru the installation process, in mainframe language I use the SUSE flavor and the manuals helped a lot. I assume that there are Redhat Redbooks available. Others hopefully will chime

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] dasd_mod probe behavior change on SLES11?

2009-11-30 Thread Mark Ver
>>> From:"Romanowski, John (OFT)" > Bottom of p34 (pdf p48) of SLES11 Device Drivers manual says 'you can speci= > fy =1B$B!m=1B(Bdiag=1B$B!m=1B(B on the command line, for example during IPL= > , > to force the device driver to access the device (range) using the DIAG acce= > ss method.' > > S

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread And Get Involved
Mike Myers: I am newbie on linux and Z/VM too. After one year and half , I have installed VM5.4 with Dirmaint, Racf . I am very proud of myself. It also proves that this system isn't hard to learn and build. My experience is that : Go to Share Conference---z/VM sessions first, Second start t

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Payne
On 11/29/2009 05:57 PM, Mike Myers wrote: Justin: OK, I got vnc installed and it's sort of working. I say "sort of" since it gives me a window, but the window doesn't offer much more than what I got when I used ssh to access the zlinux system. The window contains a normal prompt and lets me ente

Re: Suse, Linux for Z

2009-11-30 Thread Mauro Souza
We successfully ported an big ERP-like C based project a couple of months ago in s390x. The code were designed for run under Intel, along with some Java code running under Oracle Forms. We had only to change a couple flags on Makefile regarding gcc (to optimization, and to create 32bit code because

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread John McKown
On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:59 -0500, Mike Myers wrote: > Mark: > > Let me ask you a question concerning the > administrative/management/monitoring tasks on zLinux and how they relate > to the job of the operator, performance tuner and systems programmer in > a mainframe environment, such as z/OS. > >

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread John McKown
That really helped me! And it also helped with z/OS UNIX as well. On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:14 -0500, Mike Myers wrote: > Scott: > > I suppose you're right. I am a Linux newbie and am trying to accelerate > my learning experience. Ubuntu has been helpful with that. Some of the > stuff I guessed I h

Re: 3270 access to RHEL zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Mike Myers wrote: > I am trying to connect to zLinux using x3270, but have been unable to > find the combination of IP address and port number that will give me a > connection. All attempts have come back "connection refused". What > should I be using? Linux doe

3270 access to RHEL zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Myers
Hi: These are probably pretty basic questions, but I am still new with zLinux. I am running RHEL zLinux under Hercules and have uncommented the 3270 devices in the supplied Hercules configuration file and restarted Hercules and RHEL zLinux. I can see that I have 3 3270 device addresses identifie