Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-18 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 06/17/2015 at 07:03 EDT, Martin Schwidefsky martin.schwidef...@de.ibm.com wrote: Well, technically there have been machines with OSA cards that required the portname which is why the parameter has survived until now. There is a bit in the response block of the read channel

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-18 Thread Mark Post
On 6/18/2015 at 10:56 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Ummm. I wouldn't do that. I simply want the documentation to disappear and any distro-provided configuration panels to remove it. If someone already has it, accept it, warn that it is being ignored, and Whereas I

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-18 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 06/18/2015 at 11:45 EDT, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: There wouldn't be any failures if someone provides a portname in a parmfile, for instance. The installer would ignore it as would the kernel. As for being an attribute of the OSA I'm sure there are _plenty_ of other

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-18 Thread Scott Rohling
I agree with Mark .. from everything I've read in these threads and documentation - the 'safest' course is to not specify the portname - and there is no downside to not specifying it but can be to having it specified -- so have the driver ignore any configuration that attempts to specify it.

Re: Fw: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-17 Thread Ursula Braun
-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 17/06/2015 09:25 Subject: Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote on 06/16/2015 04:53:29 PM: From: Mark Post mp...@suse.com To: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 06/16/2015 04:53 PM Subject: Re: SUSE12 Gold image

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-17 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote on 06/16/2015 04:53:29 PM: From: Mark Post mp...@suse.com To: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 06/16/2015 04:53 PM Subject: Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM On 6/16/2015 at 09:55 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Tuesday, 06/16

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Neither z/VM nor Linux have to specify a portname (real or virtual). I recommend that you do NOT specify the portname. I don't understand why the

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Mark Post
On 6/16/2015 at 09:55 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Neither z/VM nor Linux have to specify a portname (real or virtual). I

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Or make the driver ignore anything specified and set it to null/blank ... ? Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 6/16/2015 at 09:55 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post mp...@suse.com

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 11:41 EDT, Duerbusch, Tom duerbus...@stlouis-mo.gov wrote: Back in the old days, SLES 7, the statement about portname was, it is not required, but if you do use it, you must use it every where (or something to that effect). So, as I never when back to the older

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Duerbusch, Tom
Thanks Alan I'll drop portname from my install documentation and, eventually, when we get a new processor, we can go to SLES 12 and beyond, and portnames will eventually die out (no zOS here...for bettor or worse). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Alan Altmark

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-15 Thread Mark Post
On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Neither z/VM nor Linux have to specify a portname (real or virtual). I recommend that you do NOT specify the portname. I don't understand why the distros still worry about the portname. We got rid of the requirement

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-08 Thread Lizette Koehler
:50 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SUSE12 Gold image on VM Hi Does anyone have experiences in building SUSE12 using VNC? I would like to have some discussion on the same. If anyone is willing to help and explain that would be really of a great help. Jake

SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-08 Thread Jake Anderson
Hi Does anyone have experiences in building SUSE12 using VNC? I would like to have some discussion on the same. If anyone is willing to help and explain that would be really of a great help. Jake -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-08 Thread Mark Post
On 6/8/2015 at 01:50 PM, Jake Anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone have experiences in building SUSE12 using VNC? I do. :) I would like to have some discussion on the same. If anyone is willing to help and explain that would be really of a great help. What would you