Re: CrossPost: Mainframe Poll
I have also completed my questionnaire! On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Lionel B Dyck lionel.b.d...@kp.org wrote: Information Weeks May 4 issue is all about virtualization. There is an article (only one) about the mainframe that at least acknowledges that the mainframe exists and can do more but they emphasize at a cost. They are asking those interested in the mainframe to take a poll at: http://www.informationweek.com/poll/mainframes In one question they ask which OS you are using and include IBM Linux - I wasn't aware that there was an IBM Linux which goes to show that they are still ignorant of the mainframe Linux space - but they are asking so let's give them some input. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: Our cause is health. Our passion is service. We?re here to make lives better.? ?Never attribute to malice what can be caused by miscommunication.? NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package
Hi Mark! I really appreciate your comments - it is nice to know us novices didn't screw things up! We had considered every other alternative in preference to creating a 'boot cart' and *then* performing the rest of the install off a DVD that was loaded into the HMC's DVD drive, but we always found some technical/political reason why that would not be worth trying. You mention creating two DVD's, and IPLing from the DVD reader within the HMC - do you mean IPL'ing from the DVD directly? I do not think that that is possible, because we need to specify an MVS device address in the Activation Profile. (I have a vague recollection of confguring an HMC workstation to emulate an 'internal reader' function, but I did not investigate further, because it sounded a bit obscure to me, I guess I missed a trick there...) One a similar vein, I used Windows/XP's Roxio Creator to 'burn an ISO image' to DVD. A friendly face on this forum suggested that a Windows-based DVD burn *would not* properly create diectories, hard or symbolic links, thus rendering the DVD corrupt from a Linux point of view. I have had suspicions about my DVD burning techniques(!), and have spent some time 'surfing the web' to confirm that burning software CD/DVDs is fraught with problems. Would it be true to say that I *must* burn the SLES DVD with a linux DVD burner? If you are in the UK, Mark I would appreciate a telephone conversation (no committments offloaded on to you, I promise!), and I can provide my contact details. regards Rapp On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 2/10/2009 at 1:10 AM, bruce woodley rapp0...@googlemail.com wrote: -snip- (The Suse SLES10 SP1/SP2 install failed because of mismatch between the TAPEIPL modules and the memory resident INITRD file system. I guess no one at Suse/Novell thought anyone would install via a TAPEIPL in an native LPAR, so did not test it... :-( ) That's kind of hard to believe, but it appears you are right. :( TAPEIPL.IKR Linux version 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-default (ge...@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Apr 14 17:24:07 UTC 2008 VMRDR.IKR Linux version 2.6.16.60-0.21-default (ge...@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue May 6 12:41:02 UTC 2008 I have no idea why no one else has run into this before. I know lots of people have been doing LPAR installs. Please try making a second copy of the DVD and IPLing from the DVD reader in the HMC. That should work, and won't require any network access to get the IPL started. In the meantime, I'm going to have a little, umm, chat with our QA folks. Mark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package
Hi Jax! That was quick - I was anticipating a turn-around time of 24 hours or so! I believe that we did find this rpm directory on the DVD, (along with many others), but we were not able to rpm -V it because we do not have any linux (of any distro on any platform) at work. However, I have been given a Solaris Live CD (by the Solaris admins!),but I do not think Sun use rpm packaging method, so I do not think that this would help me. On my Fedora system at home, I do not have a DVD drive, so I cant rpm -V there. I will pass on your response to some mainframers within my team at work, and see if we can see a way forward. regards rapp01 On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: bruce woodley wrote: Package Installation Error The file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package, or a missing header Please verify your installation source.. etc. REBOOT RETRY One think you could check is whether or not the file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm is or is not present anywhere on the DVD. If it is not you can probably find it somewhere and compose yourself a new ISO with the missing file present. -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax http://www.well.com/%7Ejax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afterwards. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
