Hello list,
The new RHEL 5 Virtualization Cookbook and an updated SLES 10 book are up
on http://linuxvm.org/present/ (thanks Mark!).
Feedback is welcome. Enjoy.
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> I have now setup apache pointing to sles9xsp3root (created by the
> mkslesroot script run on zLinux - tried both mounting iso's and copies)
and
> am trying to install additional packages via http.
By chance have you exported the same install tree via NFS? If so, does
that succeed? If so, that w
Tom,
> There is obviously something else wrong.
You could do a "sh -x ./mksles9root.sh -m s390x" and see all that is going
on. That may be a lot of output. You could also add an echo statement
near the bottom after the line "mk_directory_structure $spLevel" such as:
echo "mounts = $mount, spLeve
> Once installed is there a way to thresh out all 'desktop'
> features to get some space back for more usefull packages like WAS?
In "The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES10" (section 7.5.5) we describe a
set of RPMs that can be removed after a minimal install to get it down to
around 700MB.
See th
>Does anyone have a copy of a Shell Script with some FTP commands in
> it that they can share?
>
> FTP from UNIX to VM/CMS ID.
This one has the MAINT password, , and z/VM TCP/IP address,
, in the script, so there's an obvious security issue to be aware
of:
# cat getMAINTfiles.sh
#!/bin/bash
f
> that compared various filesystems.
But, you might also consider the long-term plans for ReiserFS and JFS. It
seems the distributors/community is standardizing on ext file systems.
Commnents?
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John,
> I'm not sure if Mike MacIsaac's "Samba Solutions" presentations got into
Kerberos or not. He can chime in on that.
It gets into winbind with AD, but just touches on Kerberos. It doesn't
address Samba-3 nor Windows 2003 Server, so I'm not sure how much value it
would be.
FWIW I recently h
> with bash I cannot write the file that I am reading...
The sed command now has an "in-place" flag:
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)
> But with bash this does not leave anything...
I think you would want to escape the periods and omit t
> I just pulled this down; The readme file says that cmsfs is
> included, but I don¹t see the file...
cmsfs is now included as an RPM with SLES 10. So the README.txt lists an
extra file.
> Time for the next iteration?
No, not for something that minor.
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Hello list,
I found *two* bugs in the code associated with the SLES 10 cookbook :((
Mark Post has updated the tar file at
http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/virt-cookbook-S10.tgz for a second time.
Thanks Mark!
The tar file has the same name. If you downloaded the
virt-cookbook-S10.tgz file, please
Hello,
We are pleased to announce that a new version of "The Virtualization
Cookbook" is available now and a second version should be available soon.
The book "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for
SLES 10" and the associated tar file are now available at the top of th
Hello,
We are pleased to announce that a new version of "The Virtualization
Cookbook" is available now and a second version should be available soon.
The book "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for
SLES 10" and the associated tar file are now available at the top of th
Bruce,
> and the console is disconnected, CP
> will log off the user when Linux tries to execute the IPL.
Didn't know that, thanks.
> I just leave this in the inittab as SUSE supplies it, and I've never
> had a problem.
But if the console is logged on, the reboot will continue? So myself, I
woul
Jim,
> So I am wondering if anybody has any ideas how this might have happened,
> so that the Linux guests would have time to shutdown
Did you modify the /etc/inittab for trapping Ctrl-Alt-Del (SHUTDOWN)
signals? The default for both SLES and RHEL I believe is:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3
John,
I vaguely remember this. One workaround that an enterprising colleague
found was to unmount CD1 and mount CD2 in the same place while the error
message is showing. Then the upgrade should continue.
The crux of the problem, I believe, was that an identifier in a file was
wrong. I recall th
> SLES10 with more recent package version has the same problem :(
Just a thought - I believe the new sitar RPM was not built by SuSE. Also
Marcy mentioned the net-snmp RPM was built by Velocity Software. So
perhaps SPident is bad at math when it is comparing RPMs not built by
SuSE.
"Mike MacIsaac
> If it is older than expected there will be a - sign
...
> - sitar 1.0.7- 270.1 < 1.0.6- 7.2
Is 1.0.7 < 1.0.6?
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> Just Curious.Where have you seen an IBM announcement
> that WAS version 6 or higher supports SLES 10. We've
> been waiting for that particular information.
I forwarded this question to a Guy Who Knows and he sent me this:
WAS 6.0.2 supported SLES 10 as of October 13, 2006. Ple
Stefan,
> has anyone implemented a wiki on zLinux? If so, do you mind to
> share what software and versions you used for:
>
> * zLinux
> * php
> * web server
> * database
I've tried Moinmoin, Mediawiki and Confluence.
Moin-moin worked well with standard SLES9 apache2 and php4. It has no
databas
SLES 10:
# rpm -qa | grep bash
bash-3.1-24.4
RHEL 5 beta 2:
# rpm -qa | grep bash
bash-3.1-16.1
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> However, when
> I enter root/passwd the system just sits there.
I believe you are in. Try right-clicking and choosing "New terminal".
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We ran into this writing the Virtualization Cookbook with SLES9. This
error was intermittent for us until the OSA microcode was brought up to
date. This labelbox was added:
If you get the following error that the gateway cannot be pinged:
HCPIPN2833E IP address is already registered
...
Warni
> any other Ideas?
> The FTP server we are running is on a OS/2 portable.
Would it be possible to set up a Linux PC instead of OS/2? If so, setting
up an install tree is documented in chapter 6 of "The Virtualization
Cookbook" (through NFS, not FTP).
If not, it might be important to note that (as
> Your image file is much larger than mine. Mine has 29,159 records,
> using 511 blocks.
Mine is identical to Karel's - in size and release level
I don't know why your kernel is dying. FWIW, the messages I get when
booting an install system depart from yours after the "NET: Registered
protocol fa
> I'm looking for the latest docs
Also, there is "The Virtualization Cookbook" which is up to date for SLES9.
It steps you through all tasks from Installing z/VM 5.2, to cloning SLES 9,
and addresses other issues. See the top of the page
http://linuxvm.org/present
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Brandon sent me his changes and I very quickly looked at them and tested
them. They look good so I sent it to Mark and I see he already has the new
script up on http://linuxvm.org/patches/
Thanks Brandon and Mark.
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Sue,
> Can anyone shed any light on what's happening, and what I can do to fix
it?
> The messages are:
>
> nfs: server 192.168.150.108 not responding, still trying
Were there multiple installs being performed? We saw these messages in a
classroom environment when many were installing simultaneou
> it actually makes the Windows weenies have to sweat for a change...8-)
BUT, with winbind the Windows weenies either have to give you AD
administrative authority (not likely) or at a minimum have to create a
trust to your Linux/Samba "box". If they don't *have* to create a trust,
then they're not
I haven't solved the problem you describe, but a couple of ideas come to
mind:
1) The "userid map" smb.conf parameter - allows you map Windows user names
to Linux. Of course this is one more maintenance issue. Then you could
keep the users and passwords in the smbpasswd file.
2) Perhaps this is a
> If postfix is down, the message will not be send until it comes back up.
Yes, but you get fewer interruptions with this model :))
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> I never understood why but the addresses seem backwards to me.
Me too. I always visualize a backward arrow on DEDICATE as with the "ln
-s" command.
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How about sed, awk, head and tail? This is not the prettiest, but seems to
work:
# cat foo
#first first
#second
#third
#first first
#second
#third
# ./replaceFirst first FIRST foo
#FIRST first
#second
#third
#first first
#second
#third
# ./replaceFirst fourth FIRST foo
fourth not found
# cat rep
> Well, anyone in the www group.
That would be two users:
# grep www /etc/group
www:x:8:
# grep 8 /etc/passwd
mail:x:8:12:Mailer daemon:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/bin/false
wwwrun:x:30:8:WWW daemon apache:/var/lib/wwwrun:/bin/false
> That lets all the world to do whatever.
So if "all the
> That lets all the world to do whatever.
>From a browser, or from a non-root ssh session? Can you give me an
example?
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> And, I agree with your warnings about giving access to CP commands.
If you give sudo vmcp access to only users the www group, which has one
user, wwwrun (that apache runs under) by default, then no holes there. If
the cgi-bin scripts only do specific queries of z/VM then no holes there.
And for
John,
> Why not set up "sudo" for that?
Yes, of course. Thanks. I added the following line to /etc/sudoers and
that did it:
%wwwALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/vmcp
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Is there a way to run vmcp as non-root? Or, is there a way to run a
cgi-bin script as root (probably not the better security choice). I want
to execute CP commands from a cgi-bin script. Has anyone done this?
Thanks.
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> So what do you suggest?
Can this be taken offline? It is clearly off topic. What is the "local
linux discussion group" cited in the subject line? Thanks.
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> Sure, it wastes a little, but ...
When writing "The Virtualization Cookbook",
http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/virt-cookbook-2.pdf, we took Rob's
suggestion to save a few cycles by doing the following:
1) Have one zLinux server run the NTP server, xntpd, syncing to servers on
the Internet becomin
You might try over on the ibmvm list server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I found this hit on the Web:
http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0603&L=ibmvm&T=0&P=57590
Where Jim Vincent said:
We have z/VM 5.2 on 12 systems here - all but 1 are production systems.
Generally they have been runn
Hi List,
You might find the article: "Buy a Mainframe, Save Energy?" pertinent. See
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/3628646
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> Any plans for a SLES10 version of the cookbook?
Not at this time. We still need to work on chapter 11. But perhaps down
the road ... perhaps in a different media.
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Dave,
> Are you going to have it available on the IBM red books site as well?
No, there are no plans to do so at this time.
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Hello list!
I am pleased to announce there is an updated version of "z/VM and Linux on
IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook" on http://linuxvm.org/present/.
It includes a new chapter, 11, "Cloning IBM middleware virtual servers"
that describes installing and cloning WebSphere Application Serv
> You may not give IBM software to anyone else.
depending on the license: the IBM Public License allows it.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ibmpl.php
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Dominic,
> Does it makes sense ?
Have you heard/read Gordon Wolfe's "Managing a Penguin Farm on the VM
Prairie"? See http://linuxvm.org/present/ and it looks like there are 4
copies of it from various SHARE conferences. You might want to read
through the oldest and the newest. Gordon maintainte
> Unless I am terribly misinformed, it *is* an atomic operation for the
> operating system. Even though from a storage management point of view
> it may take some time.
The z/VM FLASHCOPY command can give a return code of 0 and then *fail*
later asynchronously. It is difficult to trap in REXX (for
> Is there a way to restart the loader?
#cp ipl 00c
Assuming the three punch files are still in your reader, that will just
start the install process again.
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Marcy,
Seems to work for me. I'll ask a Dumb Question: you did put a message in
the file, correct? Mine was empty
login as: root
Password:
Last login: Fri Jul 21 08:56:51 2006
this is /etc/motd
# history | tail -3
901 echo "this is /etc/motd" >> /etc/motd
902 exit
903 history | tail -3
Mike,
> Can someone direct me on what needs to be done
> or where I can go to get the information?
See linuxvm.org/present.
I wrote a paper and did a presentation on SHARE. Both are getting a bit
old, but should still be close to correct:
http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/SambaMig.pdf
http://linuxv
Inho,
> The service pack is an additional installation source. So it is
> a different path with CD1 to CDx.
OK, so I assume there will be a need for a similar tree structure as with
SLES9. Could SuSE supply a script to build the tree and the yast/order
and yast/instorder files? That would be ver
Hello list,
FYI - the subject draft redbook is on the Web at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247272.html?Open
This book started as a copy of the book "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z:
The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES9" and converted SLES stuff to RHEL
stuff. I worked a bit wi
> Also, what might be the complications for mksles9root when dealing with
a DVD Image?
No complications, no script needed!
It was good news to hear that SuSE has a DVD ISO image for SLES10. Having
one should allow you to mount the ISO image loopback, point to it and
install. There should not be
Tom,
> Apparently, you're not paying your bills.
Exactly. It was a fun little experiment and $10/mo didn't sound like
much, but I gave up on it (scratched that itch).
> looking for the current mksles9root script.
It's on http://linuxvm.org/patches/S390/mksles9root.sh
Thanks to Mark Post and Vel
Hello list,
I finally got SLES10 RC 3 installed. Thanks to William Scully for
recommending to take out the "InstNetDev", "OsaInterface" and "OsaMedium"
parameters. That was the only way I was able to get out of the starting
gate. Hopefully SuSE will fix that before GA.
It did install with the iso
> In case any one here hadn't heard, Novell is offering Release
> Candidate versions of SLES10
Thanks Mark.
Within IBM, we have the luxury of an internal download server. I got
SLES10 RC3 (4 CD isos) but have not been able to get it to install.
As a head's up, there are new parmfile parameters (s
James,
> How do you tell Linux what VM already knows (The disk is RO) during
startup
> so you camt mount the VM specified RO mini-disk as RW to linux?
Good question. But it goes back to the basic premise that Mark pointed
out. I'll try to summarize
1) when you need to write to a disk that others
Ronald,
Thanks for the append.
> Please check how the dasd driver sees the dasdd disk
It sees it as "ro":
# cat /proc/dasd/devices
0.0.0100(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize: 4096,
546840 blocks, 2136 MB
0.0.0101(FBA ) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : active at blocksiz
James,
> Did you try the -t flag? -t ext2 specifically?
Yes, many times:
# mount -t ext2 -o ro /dev/dasdd1 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dasdd1,
or too many mounted file systems
# mount -t ext2 -o noload /dev/dasdd1 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad opti
Leland,
> You could try mounting it with the "noload" option.
Thanks, but no cigar - same error:
# mount -o noload /dev/dasdd1 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dasdd1,
or too many mounted file systems
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I'm trying to mount an ext3 file system as ext2, I thought this could
*always* be done, but I'm finding otherwise.
I write to a disk on a "master" Linux and then want to link it read-only
on "clones". I use a LINK statement in the USER DIRECTory, use "(ro)" in
zipl.conf and "ro" in fs
> As promised some time ago, I have updated the presentations page on
linuxvm.org ...
Very cool. Thanks Mark!
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Hello list,
Has anyone used heartbeat across LPARs to set up an HA solution? We are
close but it's not quite working.
We set up two ITDS6 LDAPs that are peer to peer master servers so their
databases stay in sync. We set up heartbeat to give the two servers a
single Virtual IP Address (VIPA). Eve
> Can some give me the directions on the proper steps to change the system
> name and the IP address of my test Linux system
Here is the guts of changes made by the clone.sh script from "The
Virtualization Cookbook". The variable names should be self-explanatory:
cat $master_mnt_pt/etc/HOSTNAME |
> I thought all computer geeks played D&D :-)
Certainly all the schizophrenic ones :))
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Mel,
> I haven't tried RHEL in my environment. Should I?
As an IBMer I'm supposed to be neutral about distributions. This is easy
because I feel that both SLES and RHEL are excellent distributions (as are
Debian and Slack390 I would imagine).
Often, an enterprise will make a strategic decision to
Stephen,
> When will we get a "for DEBIAN" version of this redbook? :)
Suffice it to say that is unlikely. I'm guessing the smiley implies that
the question is somewhat rhetorical.
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The redbook "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook
for SLES9" was recently published on the Web at:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246695.html
The tar file associated with this book are on the Web at:
ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG246695/
The
Tim,
> Is it normal for it to shut down
> right after installation finishes?
Yes, and did you finish the installation? There are two halves to a SLES
installation (unlike RHEL). For the second half you have to IPL from your
root (boot) file system and complete the YaST install questions.
"Mike M
Tim,
> but /usr needs to be more than 2.2GB is it better to reconfigure
> the devices in the "Shark" to combine two or three into a
> larger volume, or is this what LVM is about
Either way, but I'm guessing LVM is more in your control. You can create
a logical volume of two 3390-3s to give you 4.
> Then, while trying to ping the gateway, I get 100% packet loss and:
> Warning: The gateway address 172.4.1.1 did not ping.
So you have *never* gotten TCP/IP access to any Linux yet? Is z/VM on the
network and using the same gateway and OSA card? If so then you know the
gateway is up and on the
> is there anything else that needs to be done for that
> user to use this network construct?
Of course you have to give the user ID a triplet on the VSWITCH and couple
it. I put this line:
NICDEF 600 TYPE QDIO LAN SYSTEM VSW1
in a PROFILE in the USER DIRECT file. Then when you logon, both tasks
Tim,
> I haven't gotten to the software selection menu. I get, in the ssh Yast
> "panel"...
>
> A message under Partitioning "No automatic proposal possible. Specify
> mount points manually in the 'Partitioning' dialog"
So you are able to FTP into your FTP server because you get past the
networki
Tim,
> Does anyone have a log, or other documentation, on the sequence of
> events I'm supposed to see in an install of SLES9 via FTP?
It's documented in the Virtualization Cookbook for an NFS install. The
only difference with the FTP install will be early in the process on the
3270 session after
I have an MQ V6 server on SLES9+SP3. It looks like the licenses directory
goes to /opt/mqm also:
# ls /tmp
sysconfig-update/ vncserver.log
# ls /opt/mqm/licenses/
Chinese.txt* Italian.txt* LA_es LA_pt LI_en LI_pl
Portuguese.txt*
...
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Mike,
WebSphere will intall into /opt/IBM/WebSphere. A full mod 3 should be
enough. With V6 profiles, you could have the r/w data written to a
different file system if you want, or you could let it default and thus
have binaries and apps mixed (then a mod 3 may not be large enough). DB2
will insta
> "CP INDICATE QUEUE" will show the quest in Q3
(Robot with flailing arms: Danger Will Robinson!! :)) I'm not a VM
perfornace guru, but will ask some of the basic questions.
How much central storage and how much expanded storage do you have? What
does Q ALLOC PAGE show? What does Q SRM show?
> I then run a restore job from z/OS that restores linux7:/mnt/linux5
> using Upstream. Finally, I clean up my links to make sure LINUX5 has
> its disk all to itself:
>
> umount /mnt/linux5
> echo 0 > /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.1100/online
> hcp DETACH 1100
This a just a guess - but - try a "sync" b
Tim,
> it's the next step (where you choose local CD-ROM, HMC
> CD-ROM, or FTP server) that has issues.
I believe it is looking for the suse.ins file which is in the root
directory of CD1. If you're pointing to an install tree via FTP, it might
be here:
# cat /nfs/sles9x/sles9xsp3root/sles9/CD1/
> I don't know why the CD-ROM would be greyed out on the "Load from"
> menu.
The only time I've seen it is when I am *not* in Single-object-operations
mode. Are you sure you are in that mode? You should see a "window in a
window" when you get into it.
"Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (84
> I don't know how/when this directory has to be created
I believe it is documented in one of the README files on CD1 of SP3. Also,
see chapter 6 of the Virtualization Cookbook
(http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/virt-cookbook-1.pdf). If you have the 6
vanilla SLES9 ISO images and the 3 SP3 ISO im
> It seems to me that there must be a better way to have a
> driver loaded at boot time.
>From The Virtualization Cookbook, section 7.6.9 (I believe Bruce Hayden
helped on this one):
The vmcp module/command allows z/VM CP commands to be issued from Linux.
...
To enable it, edit the file /etc/sysco
Tim,
> I was planning on using FTP rather than NFS
I believe there is a feature (or bug) with installing via FTP whereby the
location specified in the install is relative to the home directory of the
FTP user. So if the FTP user were tim and the home directory is /u/tim,
then if you specify /sles
Tim,
> is the "-e" meaningful on a Linux system
I believe that is recommended in the SuSE documentation. On Linux the -e
flag is used to enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters.
And there does not appear to be any more backslashed characters in the
script, so you can probably saf
Hello linux-390-ers and vmesa-l-ers,
A draft of the updated redbook "z/VM and Linux on zSeries: From LPAR to
Virtual Servers in Two Days" is available for review. Jin Xiong and I have
been updating it for z/VM 5.2 and SLES9 SP3. The new proposed title is
"z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Vir
Bernard,
> Has anyone managed to get this VMCP command to work ?
>
> VMCP QUERY NSS ALL MAP
# vmcp QUERY NSS ALL MAP
FILE FILENAME FILETYPE MINSIZE BEGPAG ENDPAG TYPE CL #USERS PARMREGS
VMGROUP
0036 BC05DCSS DCSS N/A1 23FFF SR A 1 N/A N/A
0030 CMS NSS 00
> Where would the SP3 CDs go and how would they be named?
In the file .../CD1/docu/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html, there is a section
"Setting up an installation server for network installations" that
describes the details. It describes SP2, not SP3 but should work the same,
and has a few words for Windows
> It has this file /dosutils/install/install.bat that appears
> to be Windows oriented. What didn't work with that?
Just glancing at the code, it doesn't seem to handle any service packs,
which would make sense since it is on the vanilla CDs. So I looked at
.../sles9xsp3root/sp3-9/CD1 but I don't
Someone replied to me off-list that a PMR was opened and a reply from SuSE
was:
The "error" was: the media label which is written into the header part
of the ISO image was wrong, causing CDs burned from it to be
misidentified and YaST not accepting such CD as a SUSE patch CD.
Perhaps th
> Does anyone have any information on the new corrected
> sles9 sp3 CD? I noticed there is a new "corrected" CD1
> labeled CD1a that is now available on the Novell site.
What are the correct file names and md5sums for SLES9 SP3, s390 and s390x?
Can someone from SuSE please clarify? Pretty please?
Rich,
> OK, tried that. The yast screen comes up, and a message flashes (way to
> fast to read), then it terminates.
Try going into yast and invoking Software => Change Source of Installation
You should see some entries pointing to where you installed from. You can
replace these (I would reco
Bernard,
> and what if volume 2061 is a 3390 mod 9 , which can hold several mini
> disks. What do I do then ?
By chance are you mixing up virtual and real addresses? Are 2500-2505 and
2061 real addresses?
If you are using MDISKs and not DEDICATEs in your user directory entry
(which I think most
Simon,
> I am probably among a tiny minority of customers who
> rely on the combined Directory Maintenance / Password
> Management product known as XEDIT USER DIRECT :-)
Our setup is a bit more sophisticated - we also use the DIRECTXA and
occasionally even the DISKMAP tools. :))
"Mike MacIsaac"
> How about an "all or nothing" solution, for example:
>
> CP DEFINE/SET VSWITCH switchname UNRESTRICTED
I will second that motion ...
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William,
> The third window alerts me that "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 disk 3
> needed to install packages"
...
> I cannot find how to direct Red Hat's tools to find the materials,
> which are -already- mounted in a subdirectory under /mnt. And
> advice on how to do so?
How did you create the s
Mark,
> I must have a _tremendous_ amount of character in that case. :)
I don't know - I think using autoyast is cheating :))
On a serious note, please do tell us about autoyast. I thougth the
consensus was that it didn't work on s390[x]. I've never tried it.
"Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bernard,
> /linuxrc: line 500: 249 Segmentation fault $CONDOM /bin/linuxrc
I want to say I've seen this once. Perhaps you ran out of memory?
In the book we recommend temporarily setting the size of the machine to
384M from 256M for the install. That worked fine for us on SP1, but for
SP
John,
> As you suggest I'll see if I can raise a PMR.
Perhaps it is already fixed. Have you applied these PFS to your VM?:
APAR VM63895 was opened to address the problems reported recently with
virtual NIC. There are three known symptoms addressed by this APAR:
(1) Linux guests may lose connect
Lee,
> But when I try to run it on my SLES9 SP3 s390 system, I get:
>
> leesles9:/iso # ./mksles9root.sh
> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
You are right. I downloaded it from linuxvm.org and got that too:
./mksles9root.marks.sh
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
It looks l
John,
> Should it be SP3's in tree sp3root, and SP1's in tree sp1root?
Yes, you are correct. Good catch.
> I haven't checked where they actually are put; not up on
> shell scripting.
It's a typo in the help, but not in the name of the tree that actually
gets built.
I have asked Mark if he can u
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