Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Shane G
Maybe you should be thankful Mark didn't go with the default RoT of "swap=2xRAM" Personally I've never allowed _any_ installer to handle partitioning, but I can appreciate your concern for the "novice" installer (person). They will/should probably be using mod-9s anyway, rather than trying to sque

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I would agree that it wasn't a big deal to change, once I figured out what was happening. I would like to suggest, one of those great "notes" in the Deployment guide. They are real eye catchers when you print out the manual. For me, just another thing I skip over when I view online (I'm show

Hillgang reminder

2010-07-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
For those who are thinking about coming to the next Hillgang meeting in Herndon Virginia, please let me know soon so we can estimate numbers for catering. The agenda is available at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0714.pdf -- F

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Mark Post
This is the result of a feature request that I entered a long time ago. I didn't like the fact that on System z, users would get a "no partition proposal possible" type indication and they would have to go in and do everything from scratch. For people that aren't yet Linux savvy, this change i

SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I'm installing SLES 11 SP 1 under z/VM 5.2 on an IBM z/890. During the installation process, a swap disk is created on my dasda drive automatically by the install process. I have my own swap disks (vdisks) allocated and I don't want/need this swap disk. I can go into partitioning during the in

Re: Strange problems adding network adapter no 2 (eth1) in SLES11 SP1

2010-07-09 Thread Agblad Tore
Thank's Alan, we just realized that since we are using layer 3. So we have to take a discussion with the network/firewall people here. Have a nice weekend :) Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Tore Agblad Volvo Information Technology Infrastructur

Re: Strange problems adding network adapter no 2 (eth1) in SLES11 SP1

2010-07-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/09/2010 at 07:29 EDT, Agblad Tore wrote: > It seams that from outside this server the two nicdef 700 and 710 have the same > MAC address > However from inside when issuing IFCONFIG to display, the MACs are different > and not any of these > MAC addresses seen from inside the server i

Re: Strange problems adding network adapter no 2 (eth1) in SLES11 SP1

2010-07-09 Thread Agblad Tore
It seams that from outside this server the two nicdef 700 and 710 have the same MAC address However from inside when issuing IFCONFIG to display, the MACs are different and not any of these MAC addresses seen from inside the server is even near the MAC address as seen from outside. Hmmm

Re: Strange problems adding network adapter no 2 (eth1) in SLES11 SP1

2010-07-09 Thread Agblad Tore
Thanks' Mark, that so far is the hottest tip we have, it certainly fits in on the symptoms. We will digg into that matter now. Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Tore Agblad Volvo Information Technology Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Developmen

Re: Strange problems adding network adapter no 2 (eth1) in SLES11 SP1

2010-07-09 Thread Agblad Tore
Hi Mike. I did change that broadcast, blanked it out actually, then it defaults to a correct value, but no change. Maybe it's a firewall rule somewhere only allowing one adapter using ssh connection. Because logging in from outside the machine only works with one of the interfaces, but an intern