I've been very successful with installing a minimal SLES8 system on 1112 cylinders. This way three can fit on a 3390-3 volume with a very small amount of left over space. I also have to make sure that I select additional packages (inetd, vsftpd, THE and some others) either at install time, or after initial installation.
I've not recently experimented with breaking out other filesystems. On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 02:09, ING. A. Neij wrote: > Hi All, > > Since some months we are running SuSe Linux Guests under z/VM. For the > initial installations I used IBM's redpaper written by Simon Williams > about building SLES8 systems under z/VM. This initial installation was > not very carefull with DASD space, it took about 2 3390-III volumes. So a > lot of space will be wasted by programs which will never be used because > the server only acts as a websever or a ftp server! > > The time has come we want to grow with our number of Linux Guests but we > don't want to install every guest on 2 3390 volumes. I tried to install > SLES8_64b on different smaller minidisks but was not very successfull in > it. > > When I tried to install a minimum selection of packages in one partition > (minidisk) of 1100 cylinders it works. > / 1100 cylinders > > When I tried to install the same selection of packages in different > partitions (minidisks) the installation fails. I took more space because > there are 3 more filesystems I thought! > / 300 cylinders > /usr 600 cylinders > /var 300 cylinders > /home 100 cylinders > > Does anyone can give me advise in: 1.) partitioning (which > mountpoints on different minidisks and with which filesystem?) > 2.) a minimum selection of > software packages with SLES8 ( for e.g. a web- or FTP server?) > > Kind Regards, > > Arjen Neij > > Systeem Programmeur > KAS BANK > dept. 2.1.613 (SP) > P.O. Box 24001 > 1000 DB Amsterdam > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ********************************************************************** > Disclaimer > > The information contained in this message is intended only for the person or entity > to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privacy sensitive > information. If you are not the addressee of this message, you may not use, > distribute or disclose this information in any way. If you have received this > message mistakenly, please notify us immediately and destroy this message forthwith. > KAS BANK N.V. does not guarantee that the information contained in this message will > be correctly or entirely received by the recipient. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina Illustro Systems International rsmrcina at illustro.com Catch the WAVV! Update your zSeries skills in 4 days. WAVV 2005 in Colorado Springs, CO May 20-24, 2005 For details see http://www.wavv.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
