Re: Current Linux/390 Distributions Aren't Cheap

2002-01-23 Thread David Goodenough
That is fine if you have the opportunity to issue the Alien command. In this case what was proposed was a system that issued the rpm command for you and expected that to result in the installation. Post, Mark K mark.post@eds.To: [EMAIL

Sharing an OSA-E

2002-01-23 Thread Sterling James
We have a LINUX running in LPAR mode with an OSA--E as the only network interface. We looking into bringing zVM to run it in the LPAR and, then, run multiple LINUX images underneath it. I have a couple of question, being new to VM and OSA-E; 1) What's the best way to set up the network for the

LCS driver weirdness

2002-01-23 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hi everyone! I'm running Conectiva Linux/S390 with patches and oco modules from november 23rd, under an IBM Multiprise 3000 with some ESCON cards using addresses 0x80-5. One of them, using addresses 0x82 and 0x83 and adaptor number 2, are dedicated to a Linux machine running under VM. At first,

Networking

2002-01-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers Can any of you good people answer a question? How is Linux doing his/its networking? Is it exactly the way the I386 distribution designers suggested it would, on that platform? I have been seeing more then the usual amount of posts

Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA

2002-01-23 Thread John Summerfield
Mike, There wasn't a lot of difference, but more than just a few files. I pointed my web browser at Red Hat's FTP server, did a cut and paste of the RPMS directory, and stuck that in a file. Then, I wrote a small Rexx exec to take that and compare it to an ls -loutput command run on my

Re: Networking

2002-01-23 Thread Patterson, Ross
Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can any of you good people answer a question? How is Linux doing his/its networking? Is it exactly the way the I386 distribution designers suggested it would, on that platform? Yes and no. Yes, Linux networking on S/390 is the same as on Intel x86

Re: Networking

2002-01-23 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Does anyone have a copy of qeth.o for 2.4.35-ac32-pre42-greased-turke y?) The greased turkey (there really was one) was 2.4.15. It was a real dud, good for destroying filesystems. Fortunately for me, I wasn't one caught;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's

Re: Sharing an OSA-E

2002-01-23 Thread Jim Sibley
David Boyes wrote: 2) During migration to the best way; Can my current LINUX image share the OSA-E with zVM? And, if yes, how? I can't seem to find an example of sharing a OSA-E in the books. I have seen the warnings about the need for both OS to specify portname. But,

How to install RH 7.2 via RPMS on LOCAL HARDISK ???

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Myers
I've got a 3390 disk with the RH 7.2 ramdisk on it and I've run ZIPL and can IPL it ok (and telnet to it OK). Now I've created a partition on that same disk and I want to download the GA 7.2 /s390/RPMS to it and install RH 7.2 from that same disk Will rhsetup let me do this?? I've mounted

Re: How to install RH 7.2 via RPMS on LOCAL HARDISK ???

2002-01-23 Thread John Summerfield
I've got a 3390 disk with the RH 7.2 ramdisk on it and I've run ZIPL and can IPL it ok (and telnet to it OK). Now I've created a partition on that same disk and I want to download the GA 7.2 /s390/RPMS to it and install RH 7.2 from that same disk Will rhsetup let me do this?? I've

Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA

2002-01-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Not when you're behind a firewall that causes the date and time information to be lost during the retrieval. :( I've had uneven results with wget behind my company's firewall, to say the least. Some downloads work just fine, others do not. This method was instituted for one of the sites that

Re: QETH Driver failure

2002-01-23 Thread Post, Mark K
I must have misunderstood something that was being said in the past about IBM support of Linux/390. If someone like Craig is getting segfaults in the QETH OCO driver for Linux/390, I thought he could open up a problem record with the IBM support center to get it looked at. Does he have to buy

Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA

2002-01-23 Thread John Summerfield
Not when you're behind a firewall that causes the date and time information to be lost during the retrieval. :( I've had uneven results with wget behind my company's firewall, to say the least. Some downloads work just fine, others do not. This method was instituted for one of the sites

Re: Sharing an OSA-E

2002-01-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
David Boyes wrote: Dedicate the adapter to VM. OSA sharing is complicated and hard to set up. I'm not sure what you see as complicated on sharing the OSA-E devices, other than doing the IOCP (and with Linux running in an LPAR they already have that done to share with MVS). When you use a

VM VSE linux/390 Employment Web Page

2002-01-23 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; (Posted to VMESA-L and VSE-L and LINUX-390) - - - Now in its fourth year! - - - - - - Now includes VSE! - - - - - - - Now includes linux/390 - - - - I have set up a public service web page at http://www.eskimo.com/~wix/vm/ for posting positions available and