>>> On 5/20/2010 at 03:24 PM, Mike Stramba <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > It just happened to be fhe first Linux S/390 I found, if there's a > better / easier one to work with, I'll switch to it.
Plenty of them, non-commercial and commercial. http://linuxvm.org/Info/distros.html I need to update that page to include Fedora (at least). -snip- > Since I'm using Linux on a web / shell hosting service, I don't think > I can use that ...unless there's a "virtual" alternative ? If you don't want to run it on a Windows machine, which I assumed to be much easier for you to get access to, then you could ask the hosting service to insmod the kernel module for you. If they refuse, then yes you're stuck. > So I'm trying to use CTCT, which *is* connecting the Hercules > instances using the real i.p. addresses of the machines. > > Should I then have those real addresses in the "parm" file (that gets > loaded at IPL ? If you use one of the other distributions listed at the URL above, you'll have more documentation about what to do, but typically yes, you put the network interface device numbers in the parm file to make getting to the actual installation part easier. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
