Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread Phil Smith III
http://comics.com/wash/opus/archive/opus-20060205.html -- ...phsiii -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread Tobias Doerkes
Hi list, this mail goes to the LINUX-390 listserv and debian-user mailing list. i tried installing debian 3.1 on s390 in a z/VM guest (z/VM 5.1 on IBM z990). so i downloaded the 13 cd images, copied them all in one directory and mount this directory for ftp server use. After starting the debian

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread John Summerfied
Tobias Doerkes wrote: Hi list, this mail goes to the LINUX-390 listserv and debian-user mailing list. i tried installing debian 3.1 on s390 in a z/VM guest (z/VM 5.1 on IBM z990). so i downloaded the 13 cd images, copied them all in one directory and mount this directory for ftp server use.

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread David Boyes
http://comics.com/wash/opus/archive/opus-20060205.html ...phsiii Jeez. Now I have to come up with another vector for keeping him docile... Thanks. Thanks a lot. *cough* -- db -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread James Melin
David, Try Single Malt Whiskey. Slightly more alcohol content but it tastes better than most of the cough syrups. David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread David Boyes
How did you create the repository? If you just copied the .deb files into a directory, that's not enough. In the directory you dropped the packages, you need to do: dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null Packages || true ; dpkg-scansources . /dev/null Sources || true ;

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: http://comics.com/wash/opus/archive/opus-20060205.html Well, I still have the Hot Toddy fallback plan. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Nice article?

2006-02-06 Thread McKown, John
Well, I enjoyed it. I say whether it is useful here, but maybe. http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on -linux.html -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Tobias Doerkes wrote: Hi list, this mail goes to the LINUX-390 listserv and debian-user mailing list. i tried installing debian 3.1 on s390 in a z/VM guest (z/VM 5.1 on IBM z990). so i downloaded the 13 cd images, copied them all in one directory and mount this

Re: Nice article?

2006-02-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
It was interesting. Just reinforce what we all, already know, but sometimes overlook when we are on a newer to us platform. So far, no one that responded to the article, suggested the correct commands to see memory usage. Something that perhaps reports on libraries separate from programs and,

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
Umm. Were you really under the illusion that he was drinking cough syrup to control a cough? Didn't peg you for being that naive. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:52 AM To:

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Post, Mark K wrote: Umm. Were you really under the illusion that he was drinking cough syrup to control a cough? Didn't peg you for being that naive. *cough* *cough* what are you *cough* talking about? *cough* *cough*

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread Jay Maynard
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:18:23AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Post, Mark K wrote: Umm. Were you really under the illusion that he was drinking cough syrup to control a cough? Didn't peg you for being that naive. *cough* *cough* what are you *cough* talking

SP3 - I think I have a mix of Release Candidate 4 and SP3 proper

2006-02-06 Thread James Melin
I got the Novell notification about SP3 CD-2 and downloaded it I have: SLES-9-SP-3-s390x-GM-CD2.iso SLES-9-SP-3-s390x-RC4a-CD1.iso SLES-9-SP-3-s390x-RC4a-CD3.iso When I searched through novell for SP-3 for SLES9 it took me to a page where I could only download the RC4a CD1/3 images

SLES9-SP3

2006-02-06 Thread Bernard Wu
Hi Listserv, I just did a Minimum graphical system (without KDE) install. My install tree contains the 6 original ISO's and the 3 SP3 iso's ( including the new CD#2 for SP3 ). When I run SPident -vvv, I get this message: CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! foundSLES-9-s390x

Re: SLES9-SP3

2006-02-06 Thread Lee Stewart
From the SuSE Release Notes for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for zSeries and S390 (31bit) Service Pack 3 SPident Reports the Service Pack Level SPident is a tool to identify the Service Pack level of the current installation. SPident may report that the system has not reached the level of

Missing something stupid....adding dasd

2006-02-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
OK the day after superbowlso be kind G This is Suse 9.0 64 bit with SP2. I need to add a couple disks...eventually to Oracle. I add the dasd to the directory and put the directory online. I CMS format the disks. Bring up Suse Yast, activate the dasd, format the dasd. Disks are now dasdf1

Re: SLES9-SP3

2006-02-06 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
SuSE has release a fix for SPident since SP3 that corrected a problem with SPident not reporting SP3 correctly. See http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/psdb/25cb50c55b835861d91619ec0c9fdd9a.html Could this be the problem? Peter This Email message and any attachment may

Re: Missing something stupid....adding dasd

2006-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
Updating the kernel parmline in /etc/zipl.conf, I suppose. I believe others have reported that YaST fails to do this when adding DASD. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 2:11 PM To:

Re: Missing something stupid....adding dasd

2006-02-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Like I said, it was something stupid.mkinitrd Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/6/2006 2:08 PM Updating the kernel parmline in /etc/zipl.conf, I suppose. I believe others have reported that YaST fails to do this when adding DASD. Mark Post

Re: Missing something stupid....adding dasd

2006-02-06 Thread John Schnitzler Jr
Tom, Did your run mkinitrd before zipl? John -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Next dumb question: Searching for a product

2006-02-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
What is an efficient way of searching to see if there is a product that can do what you want? Obviously, by name won't do much good. I may have a need to produce a PDF file, which we are currently doing in VSE. However, in this case, we need a forms flash, or forms overlay on the form also.

Re: Next dumb question: Searching for a product

2006-02-06 Thread Stephen Frazier
VSE2PDF will do all that you asked for in this message. Go to http://www.vse2pdf.com/ for information. I find the most efficient way to search for a product is to ask a question on one of these lists. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is an efficient way of searching to see if there is a

Re: Next dumb question: Searching for a product

2006-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Tom would the Ghostscript product do what you are looking for, in your shop? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Remember the Force will be with you. Always. Obi-Wan Kenobi -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Bad news for Adam Thornton

2006-02-06 Thread John Summerfied
Adam Thornton wrote: On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Post, Mark K wrote: Umm. Were you really under the illusion that he was drinking cough syrup to control a cough? Didn't peg you for being that naive. *cough* *cough* what are you *cough* talking about? *cough* *cough* However many he's

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread John Summerfied
Adam Thornton wrote: On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Tobias Doerkes wrote: If you're going to do it like that, you need to mount all 13 CD images with the loop option to mount. What you're serving right now is 13 really big ISO files. However, once they're mounted you could edit

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread Stephen Frazier
I have seen many suggestions about how to install Debian on s/390. My question is - - - What is the best way? Shelds up! :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Thornton wrote: On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Tobias Doerkes wrote: If you're going to do it like that, you need to mount all 13 CD

Re: Next dumb question: Searching for a product

2006-02-06 Thread David Boyes
I may have a need to produce a PDF file, which we are currently doing in VSE. However, in this case, we need a forms flash, or forms overlay on the form also. This is a low volume operation, so I'm not worried about resources on our IFL. CUPS has the capability to do both the overlay and

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread John Summerfied
Stephen Frazier wrote: I have seen many suggestions about how to install Debian on s/390. My question is - - - What is the best way? I'm going to generalise a little more than that; I have installed Debian (Sarge) off a network and I don't recall any particular pain other than the installer

Re: Problems installing debian on s390

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Stephen Frazier wrote: I have seen many suggestions about how to install Debian on s/390. My question is - - - What is the best way? Shelds up! :) If you've got network access, just do a net install. It's dead simple. Adam

Is SPident broken ?

2006-02-06 Thread Bernard Wu
Hi Listserv, When I installed SLES9 + SP1 , I get the following when I run SPident -vvv : CONCLUSION: ServicePack Level: SLES-9-s390x-SP1 = up-to-date With SLES9 +SP3, I get : CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! foundSLES-9-s390x expected SLES-9-s390x-SP3 The same minimal install

Re: Is SPident broken ?

2006-02-06 Thread Vic Cross
G'day Bernie, On 07/02/2006, at 6:53am, Bernard Wu wrote: With SLES9 +SP3, I get : CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! foundSLES-9-s390x expected SLES-9-s390x-SP3 The same minimal install produces 2 different results. Is SPident -vvv broken ? There was discussion here about this