RHEL Linux training

2015-11-03 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Hi I want to suggest some Linux training (z/Linux) for Administrators that are currently mostly UNIX ADMINs. This customer is migrating from Solaris UNIX to either x86 Linux or z/Linux. Does anyone have any recommendations for specific training for experience UNIX or not so experience UNIX

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-09 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
development executive to Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 13:08 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically

Re: Backup EXEC

2014-10-08 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
, October 07, 2014 1:54 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Backup EXEC Hi Terry FDR/UPSTREAM supports Linux on System z. Thanks, Patrick Fitzsimmons INNOVATION Data Processing (973) 890-7300 FAX (973) 812-7384 www.innovationdp.fdr.com - Original Message - From: Martin, Terry

Re: Backup EXEC

2014-10-08 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
not believe s390x is a supported platform. Have a good one, too. DJ On 10/07/2014 12:22 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: BACKUP EXEC -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-08 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
.    Dennis O'Brien They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! -- Mel Gibson as William Wallace, in Braveheart -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Thursday

Re: Backup EXEC

2014-10-08 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Ok thanks Pat. Not sure what I was thinking obviously I should have known that! Terry Martin - Consultant Cell - 443 854-2452 -Original Message- From: Patrick Fitzsimmons [mailto:pf...@fdrinnovation.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 4:23 PM To: Martin, Terry Contractor; LINUX-390

Backup EXEC

2014-10-07 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Hi Does anyone know if BACKUP EXEC 9Backup software used on z86 Linux) is supported for z/Linux? Thanks, Terry -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the

Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Hi I have a couple of guests that I need to add memory to without recycling the guests. What are the steps and commands to accomplish this? Thanks, Terry -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Ok, thanks for the information. I will plan the memory on the guests accordingly. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Pavelka, Tomas Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 9:52 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding memory

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
hotplugging in The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3 on the Web at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248147.html Hope it helps. -Mike M. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Hi I have a couple

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Thanks Mike. I will take a look. One question I assume that if you allocate the Standby memory in the guest Directory that it won't count against the memory footprint until some of that standby is used

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
for being wrong about this. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: It is not possible to change the memory allocated to a guest without logging off and logging on again. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Hi I

Exited my PuTTY session while signed on as INSTALL during initial z/Linux install

2014-08-29 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
HI We are progressing through the initial RHEL 6.5 install and last night we got out of our Putty session while still logged on as INSTALL user. Now today I am unable to login as INSTALL, and I am receiving the following messages: Login as: install Welcome to the anaconda install environment

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-26 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
. DJ On 08/25/2014 11:32 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Dave, You said you had a copy of a MD5 CHECKSUM REXX EXEC. Can I get a copy of that and the directions on how I would run against the INITRD image file that is sitting on my 'A' disk? Terry martin - Contractor Cell - 443 854

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-26 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 8:36 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Ok. I got a z/VM MD5 checksum from Dave. We ran it against the INITRD IMG and KERNEL IMG files and sure enough they did not match the MD5

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-26 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
[mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 8:36 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Ok. I got a z/VM MD5 checksum from Dave. We ran it against the INITRD IMG and KERNEL IMG files and sure

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-26 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
and I just misread your post? Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Ok, we finally got this to work. Ultimately we had to get FTP working and load using that. Even though the MD5 checksum done on z/VM against the images loaded

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Terry, Do you have at least 1G of memory defined? -Mike M. On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Still no go even after re-loading the INITRD. Any other suggestions ? Terry Martin

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Hi Still having issues. We have opened a PMR with REDHAT. In the meantime we are punching the PARMFILE now but still getting the same error. We tried it with multiple memory settings. This time it was set to 3G. Could the INITRD corrupted at the ISO level ? Or is it the Kernel Image that

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:33 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:21 EDT, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:33 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:21 EDT, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Could the INITRD corrupted at the ISO level

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:55 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Is there an MD5 chksum routine for z/VM? On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:21 EDT, Martin, Terry

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time On 08/25/2014 11:06 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Can a CHECKSUM be done at the source level to verify the INITRD file there? Spin-up the CD/DVD in a workstation (esp a Linux box or Mac) and run 'md5sum' against

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
at 02:55:33PM +, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Alan, If the theory is that the INITRD file is somehow corrupted and say the source (ISO) is ok could it be that it is getting messed up when transferring to our workstation first and then loading it from there to the z/Linux guest? If so

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
(this should actually only be a text file with maybe 2 lines, so no big deal for the list). Berthold On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:55:33 + Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.govmailto:terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Alan, If the theory is that the INITRD file is somehow corrupted and say

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Berthold Gunreben Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:17 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:46:04 + Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Dave, You said you had a copy of a MD5 CHECKSUM REXX EXEC. Can I get a copy of that and the directions on how I would run against the INITRD image file that is sitting on my 'A' disk? Terry martin - Contractor Cell - 443 854-2452 Office (NCC) - 410 965-8682 Email - terry.mar...@ssa.gov

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:02:33 + Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.govmailto:terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: ... But when I ran the EXEC the Neale suggested I received the following which did not include

Re: Performance Toolkit and zLinux

2014-08-25 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
I am in the same boat. I would like to use Velocity for my client but since is a POC they want to sick with something that is already there like PTK. However I am concerned when the time comes to monitor the z/Linux part of this PTK will not do the trick without some other piece of software to

Testing new connection

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Terry Martin - Consultant Cell - 443 854-2452 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Hi We are trying our initial install of z/Linux under z/VM. We have received the files required for the load. We have built the z/Linus guest and are executing the EXEC to start the build. The following is what receive when we execute the execute. This is release RHEL6.5 running on z/VM 6.3

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
is your virtual machine? On Aug 21, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: RAMDISK: lzma image found at block 0 RAMDISK: incomplete write (4096 != 65745920) List of all partitions: No filesystem could mount root, tried: iso9660

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
emulator to send the files, see if you used Fixed 80 as the record format. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2014-08-21 14:08 GMT-03:00 Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov: Hi We are trying our

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
80 234521 4581 KERNEL IMG I1 F 80 113594 1752 Larry Davis, VM Capability -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:08 PM To: LINUX-390

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Neale, I will give your EXEC a try. Terry Martin - Consultant Cell - 443 854-2452 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:22 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
-2452 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:31 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time On 8/21/2014 at 01:08 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
looks thee same, but my INITRD IMG files is a bit bigger Try reloading the INITRD IMG files from the install media. Good luck. DJ On 08/21/2014 12:23 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Here is what they look like: KERNEL IMG A1 F 80 113594 1753 8/20/14 11:30:24

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
INITRD IMG A1 F 80 234355 4578 The KERNEL IMG looks thee same, but my INITRD IMG files is a bit bigger Try reloading the INITRD IMG files from the install media. Good luck. DJ On 08/21/2014 12:23 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Here is what they look like: KERNEL

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
ramdisk image for the kernel to use for the install process, it will die. Hope this helps some. DJ On 08/21/2014 01:10 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Thanks Dave! So am I to assume that it has not gotten to the Kernel load as of yet and still in the INITRD ? Terry Martin

Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

2014-08-21 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
234355 4578 The KERNEL IMG looks thee same, but my INITRD IMG files is a bit bigger Try reloading the INITRD IMG files from the install media. Good luck. DJ On 08/21/2014 12:23 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Here is what they look like: KERNEL IMG A1 F 80