Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation - Fixed

2009-01-08 Thread Jihad K Kawkabani
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Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Jihad K Kawkabani
Greetings all, I am running z/VM 5.4 on an 2094 IFL and I am trying to install SLES10 SP1 of SUSE Linux. I am using a virtual switch for the network connection. The VM userid I am trying to install from is XG1DTECH here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM: ramdisk_size=10016 root=/dev/ram1 ro

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Jihad here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM: Just looking quickly I see: ramdisk_size=10016 The default shipped is ramdisk_size=65536, I believe. I would stick with that. Also, did you do a DEF STOR 512M before installing, if by chance the default virtual machine size is smaller than this? You

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Little, Chris
, January 07, 2009 08:09 AM Central Standard Time To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation Jihad here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM: Just looking quickly I see: ramdisk_size=10016 The default shipped is ramdisk_size=65536, I

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Robert J Brenneman
With respect to Linux installs ( most commercial Z based distributions work the same way ) the installer loads a ramdisk into the system memory to run the installer code. That ramdisk takes up some of the system memory, of course. Then - depending on which install method you use, the installer

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Perry
Robert J Brenneman wrote: sarcasm What - you mean everyone doesn't have 8 Gig of memory on their servers? /sarcasm qu'ils mangent de la brioche. mark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mauro Souza
Maybe the installer grabs file by file, puts on its temporary disk and installls it. So, for big rpm files, 64mb wouldn't be enough. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Mark Post

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Post
On 1/7/2009 at 9:13 AM, Little, Chris chris.lit...@okdhs.org wrote: Half a gig to do an installation? (at nobody in particular... Well, maybe a little towards Novell). -Why?- Start a SLES10 SP2 install using SSH. Once you sign in, do a df -h command. You'll see 256MB of space being

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Post
On 1/7/2009 at 10:56 AM, Robert J Brenneman bren...@gmail.com wrote: -snip- Then - depending on which install method you use, the installer may load another ramdisk filesystem into memory to hold all the packages you're installing. Installations that use http or ftp package sources have to

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Post
On 1/7/2009 at 8:37 AM, Jihad K Kawkabani jihad_k_kawkab...@progressive.com wrote: -snip- Here is a partial console listing of what happens during the install: qeth: Device 0.0.f003/0.0.f004/0.0.f005 is a Guest LAN QDIO card (level:V40) with link type GuestLAN QDIO (portname: dontcare)

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Jihad, This is just a thought. When you first logon onto the Linux guest on the 3270 session, are you getting this message? *NIC f003 is created; devices f003-f005 defined * Ron -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /