>>> On 8/7/2015 at 09:58 AM, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: > This is my first attempt (in many years) to install Linux (Debian this > time) on zSystem. We have a new zBC12 with 56GB and 2CP & 1IFL. I've > gone through the install a number of times and ran into road blocks, > particularly on how to setup my 6 3390-3s. I've done some RAID 0, LVM, > but still had some problems (ZIPL was the big one, something about / fs > had to be the first encountered).
I haven't played with Debian for ages, but that doesn't sound right to me. > I believe if I use (software) RAID 0, I can't extend it. So, I'm think > LVM on everything except / and /boot. I have / and /boot on the first > DASD (200) as 2.4GB and 60MB respectively. I plan on having all of the > others in Volume Groups within LVM. With LVM I can extend the size of > the fs's as the need arises. > > Thoughts? If you're going to have an entire 3390-3 for your root file system, there's no need to break /boot out as a separate file system. If you decide to do that anyway, I would make it larger than 60MB. You might find yourself in a situation where you want to have a number of different kernel versions with different initrds, etc. BTW, you do know that you can download SLES or RHEL (I'm sure you'll understand if I say I would prefer you use SLES) at no cost and try it out for as long as you want, right? With SLES, you can even get 180 days of maintenance. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
