Re: SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd question

2005-12-02 Thread Marija Perkovic
This works for me: chccwdev -e (or activating the dasd through the yast, or "echo 1 >/sys/bus/ccw/drivers/dasd//online") mkinitrd zipl Regards, Marija -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd question

2005-12-02 Thread Post, Mark K
"man zipl.conf" has examples. It will look like this: parameters="root=/dev/dasda1 dasd=unit1,unit2-unit3,unit4" Use your existing zipl.conf for a guide. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Friday, December 02, 2

Re: SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd question

2005-12-02 Thread Rich Smrcina
Here is the appropriate line from my zipl.conf: parameters = "root=/dev/dasda1 dasd=0.0.201,0.0.200,0.0.202-0.0.209 selinux=0 TERM=dumb elevator=cfq" James Melin wrote: That's the piece I cant find in the 2.6 kernel device drivers manual is how to specify the command and where. I read the secti

Re: SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd question

2005-12-02 Thread James Melin
That's the piece I cant find in the 2.6 kernel device drivers manual is how to specify the command and where. I read the section on zipl in SC33-8281-00 and while I see a lot of stuff about SCSI boot and SCSI Dump stuff, and even boot menu stuff, but alas nothing talking about specifying DASD on th

Re: SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd question

2005-12-02 Thread Post, Mark K
Yes. Put it in the command line entry in /etc/zipl.conf and rebuild your initrd. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 4:14 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd quest

SLES9 zipl/mkinitrd question

2005-12-02 Thread James Melin
Is there a way to specify the dasd devices you want the guest to know about at IPL like there was in SLES8? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

MySQL & PHP

2005-12-02 Thread Jon Brock
Hi, all, I have downloaded the latest binary version of MySQL for s390x (version is 5.0.16-standard). I want to install the PHP-mysql extensions, but I have run into a dependency problem: error: Failed dependencies: libmysqlclient.so.10() (64bit) is needed by php-mysq

Re: Questions for folks who run WEBLOGIC under linux for zseries

2005-12-02 Thread Biggs, Eric J [IT]
We run WebLogic on zLinux. We had to beg and beg to get RHEL 3.0 certified. It took about 6 months after the Intel cert. So yes, mainframe certs from BEA are WAY behind. As for your cost question, you'd have to talk to a BEA rep. As the best of my knowledge, they are still pricing by the numbe

Re: MySQL & PHP

2005-12-02 Thread Post, Mark K
Where did you get the two packages from? If they were from the same place, I would have expected them to be compatible. If you're downloading RPMs from various places, then you're probably looking at compiling stuff from source. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mai

Questions for folks who run WEBLOGIC under linux for zseries

2005-12-02 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
We may have the opprtunity to start running some Weblogic servers under SLES8 or SLES9. I looked at BEA's website and it looked like version 9.0 is not yet certified for the mainframe although it is certified for SLES9 on intel. Does anyone know if 9.0 certification is in the works? The customer

Re: DB2/UDB on SLES9 Installation Docs?

2005-12-02 Thread Bruce . Lightsey
As Rich said - the process is pretty generic for the *x platforms. I've done AIX and Linux (Intel) - still waiting for the opportunity on zLinux. Look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/support/manualsv8.html and the Quick Beginnings for DB2 Servers in particular. Pretty good instruct

Re: DB2/UDB on SLES9 Installation Docs?

2005-12-02 Thread Rich Smrcina
The installation process should be pretty generic regardless of platform. Tom Duerbusch wrote: One of my "slack time" projects, is to install DB2/UDB on SUSE 9 (31 or 64 bit) systems. I started to search for Redbook documentation (or anything else) that walks you thru installation on zSeries.

DB2/UDB on SLES9 Installation Docs?

2005-12-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
One of my "slack time" projects, is to install DB2/UDB on SUSE 9 (31 or 64 bit) systems. I started to search for Redbook documentation (or anything else) that walks you thru installation on zSeries. So far, the only book I found is "DB2 UDB Evaluation Guide for Linux and Windows" which is a coupl

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread Post, Mark K
It would be via your parmfile for zipl, or an "options" entry in /etc/modules.conf (or these days /etc/modprobe.conf). Overhead? I have no idea. I suspect it will be fairly small. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Melin S

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Actually, the limit of 8 is highly Bogus. I currently have 30 ISO images loopback mounted on my installation server, and have the potential of 50. If I run out, I'll make more. No big deal. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 (new loc)200 First Street SW 507-284-0844

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread James Melin
Where/how does one pass this parameter, and what is the overhead in creating that many loopback devices? Peter Oberparleiter LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: Linux on cc 390 Port

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread Post, Mark K
I don't think the 6 GA CDs are all binaries. I think at least a couple of them are all source RPMs. So, that would still allow this to work. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter 1 Oberparleiter Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005

Re: What is DCSS and NSS?

2005-12-02 Thread Carsten Otte
see ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/linux390/docu/l26bhe00.pdf -- Carsten Otte IBM Linux technology center ARCH=s390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: What is DCSS and NSS?

2005-12-02 Thread David Boyes
> My z/Linux(SLES9 64bit) is running under VM v5.2. > I want to running on high performance as possible as. > What is DCSS and NSS? Discontiguous Shared Segments (DCSS) are a VM construct that allow a segment of code to be mapped into the address space of multiple virtual machines at the same time

backup Vswitch controller never loses storage pages?

2005-12-02 Thread Pieter Harder
Hello, I see a strange behaviour on my failover Vswitch controller. It does not ever seem to lose any real frames assigned to it and ends up with a larger working set than the active Vswitch controller. See cutout of PTK: FCX113 CPU 2064 SER 1D11F Interval 16:33:00 - 16:34:00 Remote

Re: What is DCSS and NSS?

2005-12-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/nl76.pdf -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 o

Re: What is DCSS and NSS?

2005-12-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
> My z/Linux(SLES9 64bit) is running under VM v5.2. > I want to running on high performance as possible as. > What is DCSS and NSS? Hi K.M. NSS and DCSS are z/VM features to allow memory shared (read-only) between Linux virtual machine. You can have the kernel in NSS and libraries and userspace b

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Oberparleiter
Bruce Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02.12.2005 14:23:16: > If the loopback driver is built into the kernel, then pass the kernel > parameter max_loop=nn to increase the number of loopback devices. If the > driver is a module, then pass that parameter to the module. I have a PC > with variou

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
> pass the kernel parameter max_loop=nn to > increase the number of loopback devices. True. I believe the bigger issue is that NFS usually does not cross mount points, so an install/patch tree with 9 mount points could not be served up by most NFS servers (yes, it could be served up by FTP servers

SLES9 SP2 Installation

2005-12-02 Thread Neetu Jain
Hello, I want to install the SLES9 SP2 on MP3000 machine. Can anybody guide me with the installation steps. Regards, Neetu Jain --- Center of Excellence, L&T Infotech Ltd, Mumbai(Powai) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +91-22-5694-8233 (Work) --

Re: SLES9 - yast - Patch CD Update

2005-12-02 Thread Bruce Hayden
If the loopback driver is built into the kernel, then pass the kernel parameter max_loop=nn to increase the number of loopback devices. If the driver is a module, then pass that parameter to the module. I have a PC with various SUSE and Red Hat iso images mounted using 52 loop devices. On 12/2/0

What is DCSS and NSS?

2005-12-02 Thread mainframe_s390
Hi,all My z/Linux(SLES9 64bit) is running under VM v5.2. I want to running on high performance as possible as. What is DCSS and NSS? I don't know DCSS and NSS at all. Please teach me their foundations. Thanks, - K.M. -- STOP HIV/AIDS. Yahoo! JAPAN Redribbo

Re: VSWiTCH on SLES8

2005-12-02 Thread Mrohs, Ray
A number of recent VM APARs relate to VSWITCH issues. Make sure you are fairly current. Our SLES8 worked fine with VSWITCHes at kernel 2.4.19. Most are now at 2.4.21. Ray Mrohs Energy Information Administration U.S. Department of Energy -Original Message- From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[E

Re: VSWiTCH on SLES8

2005-12-02 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: Will SLES8 handle VSWITCH? I've got it working on SLES9-SP2 and I'm going to start converting a lot of servers. How about SLES8? Will it work? What kernel level or SP level do you have to be at if so? SLES8 works fine with VSWITCH also without any SP instelled on. Ho