Re: intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Shawn Wells
On 01/13/2010 09:32 AM, Melancon, Ruddy wrote: I have been in your situatuion before. I would try the Centos for your project since it is very closely related to Red Hat. This way if management were to decide to spring for a supported license you could use Red Hat and be comfortable with the

Re: SLES11 boot problem

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Martin
Thanks Ray, We actually circumvented the problem earlier this afternoon by disabling multipathing. Brought the system up in rescue mode, mounted /dev/sda3 (root) at /mnt, mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot, rebound proc, sys and dev then chroot /mnt. Edited /etc/sysconfig/kernel changing INITRD_MOD

Re: intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread OAKES Roger * SDC
Tuco, I'm a newbie on this list, I've done z/OS programming for fewer years than you have but for longer than z/Linux. You might have seen me on the TCPIP list. A couple of thoughts - Production means that the agency expects to have the same level of infrastructure and operational support

Re: intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Scott Rohling
I think the answer depends on whether this is simply a 'proof of concept' or if the result is supposed to be a supportable solution. I'm guessing that for now, it's proof of concept.. so as Ruddy suggested, CentOS might be a good choice since it's RH based. I'm sure RH and Novell provide 'trial

Re: gcc 4.x.x on SLES 9

2010-01-13 Thread rui
Hi Richard, I am happy with the CSCRATCH method, which looks safe to me. Thanks again for such detailed explanation, its of great help. However, after installing gmp 4.1 from rpm and then building mpfr, then installing it in /usr/opt/mpfr and pointing to right directories, my build of gcc fails o

Re: intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Rich Smrcina
Certainly from a support standpoint, DB2 Connect and most vendor software is not certified on the 'free' Linux distributions. You will need a supported distribution from Novell or RedHat. It is possible that the vendor will not even license the software without a supported distribution. If

Re: intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Melancon, Ruddy
I have been in your situatuion before. I would try the Centos for your project since it is very closely related to Red Hat. This way if management were to decide to spring for a supported license you could use Red Hat and be comfortable with the result. Otherwise the Debian will probably meet

Re: intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
This is a great place to start as you start working with Linux. Also keep www.google.com/linux as quick starting point to finding answers. Do you have an open systems group in your shop? Buy a large box of donuts and pay them a visit. Many quick answers can be found just down the hall in many s

osa layer 2 setup in redhat ???

2010-01-13 Thread Caleb C Ong
Hi, I already installed rhel 5.4 , native lpar, osa layer 3. This is up and running. I tried reinstalling rhel 5.4 , native lpar with osa layer 2. During the install it will prompt for a MAC address. Can someone guide me thru this. what is the mac address the rhel installater is looking for ? I

intro, & request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Bonno, Tuco
please allow me to introduce myself. I am new to this listserver community. I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with ibm mainframe o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system (HF