Re: Linux "appliance"

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
ent pain is purely networking > and not specific to Hercules. See: Linux on System z Device Drivers, Features, and Commands May, 2008 SC33-8411-00 Part 3, chapters 9 - 13 have all the gory details (basically a lot of echo commands). HTH -Robin -- -----

Re: zLinux entropy

2010-05-02 Thread Robin Atwood
of Everything see an interesting review in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15949137 HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, whe

Re: Linux boot image for s390

2010-05-09 Thread Robin Atwood
http://www.binro.org/gentoo-2008.6-s390x-unofficial.tar.bz2. It's a long time since I played with this though, so good luck! Incidentally I did it on Hercules but I guess it's much the same with real iron, you just have to burn a CD? HTH -Robin -- -------

Re: Fedora 14 images

2010-09-30 Thread Robin Atwood
r is it best to pursue this somewhere else? Cheers -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirs

Re: Fedora 14 images

2010-09-30 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 30 September 2010, Phil Knirsch wrote: > On 09/30/2010 04:48 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Karsten - > > I downloaded the installation images and booted using Hercules 3.07 (from > > SVN) and everything went well until anaconda crapped out during > > "

Re: Fedora 14 images

2010-09-30 Thread Robin Atwood
hread_starter+0x6/0xc <0010bdfc>! kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc INFO: lockdep is turned off. cpu: Processor 1 started, address 0, identification 102623 Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres ea

Re: Fwd: Fedora 14 on System Z alive and kicking!

2010-10-03 Thread Robin Atwood
nsole) HHC1I HHC1I s390 login: HHC1I root HHC1I c HHC1I Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) HHC1I Kernel 2.6.35.4-12.fc14.s390x on an s390x (console) Is this a security feature? HTH -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. &

Re: Fwd: Fedora 14 on System Z alive and kicking!

2010-10-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 03 October 2010, Dan Horák wrote: > Robin Atwood píše v Ne 03. 10. 2010 v 22:01 +0700: > > On Tuesday 28 September 2010, you wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > > > The Fedora s390x team[1] is happy to announce the first installable > > > Fedo

Re: Fwd: Fedora 14 on System Z alive and kicking!

2010-10-04 Thread Robin Atwood
TH -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from

Re: NFS messages

2010-12-15 Thread Robin Atwood
I can't seem to find any messages > on the linux side to tell me what's going on. Quickly checking my Gentoo AMD64 system NFS writes to the syslog with facility "daemon" so check your syslog config. HTH -Robin -- ----------

Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Robin Atwood
ext3 97M 14M 79M 15% /mnt/tmp/boot Should I try to mount the actual partitions under boot sequentially? I am new to RAID and am not sure how to proceed. TIA -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of S

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should I try to mount the actual partitions under boot sequentially? I am > > new to RAID and am not sure how to proceed. > > If you want to

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the problem is that my target device is /dev/md1 which is not a > > real disk, it's a pseudo-device manufactured by the mdadm

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:53 AM, in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am following a HOWTO I found to move my DASD to use LVM on top of > > RAID1. The > >

3270 console confusion

2008-08-07 Thread Robin Atwood
oot 4096 Aug 8 13:37 bind --w--- 1 root root 4096 Aug 8 13:21 uevent --w--- 1 root root 4096 Aug 8 13:37 unbind but there are no tty devices. What do I do next? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-08 Thread Robin Atwood
SCLP_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SCLP_VT220_TTY=y CONFIG_SCLP_VT220_CONSOLE=y Chapter 19 in the Linux Device Driver manual (SC33-8289-02) has information but is not clear on 3270 consoles. I am going to experiment. -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me some

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-08 Thread Robin Atwood
I attempt to go there.. Same here. -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"

Re: IND$FILE? (was: RE: 3270 console confusion)

2008-08-09 Thread Robin Atwood
m back again. But the network must be up; what I want is a solution that uses the zLinux console session. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the w

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-09 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 08 Aug 2008, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Robin > > Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Friday 08 Aug 2008, Dave Jones wrote: > >> The only such application I know of is (was?) NED, and > >> nobody can seem to find it anymore. > > > > That was the plan! &

Re: IND$FILE? (was: RE: 3270 console confusion)

2008-08-09 Thread Robin Atwood
ibe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- -- Robin Atwood. "

Re: IND$FILE? (was: RE: 3270 console confusion)

2008-08-09 Thread Robin Atwood
the host side of the transaction. If that's what is being > talked about being developed, then fine. Otherwise, it's a no-go. I thought there was this NED editor but it seems to have disappeared. -Robin -- ------ Robin At

Re: IND$FILE? (was: RE: 3270 console confusion)

2008-08-09 Thread Robin Atwood
HMC or VM does not have that capability. -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-19 Thread Robin Atwood
~ # ll /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/3270 /bin/ls: /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/3270: No such file or directory So I am still confused. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-19 Thread Robin Atwood
gt; Something was not correct in the earlier levels of SLES 10, but is > resolved in the latest patch level. That sounds likely, I don't think the original kernel had 3270 support compiled in. I will try to upgrade. -Robin -- ---------

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-20 Thread Robin Atwood
lt into the kernel. zlinux:~ # vmcp q term Error: Could not open device /dev/vmcp: No such file or directory I am not using VM. :) -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, W

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-20 Thread Robin Atwood
cules. (Watch support magically vanish into the distance...) I will wait for the improved Device Driver manual since I really want to get this going under Gentoo. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez,

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-21 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 22 Aug 2008, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 8/20/2008 at 3:36 PM, in message > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -snip- > > > 2.6.16.46-0.12-default. I am currently trying to workout how to do an

Re: Distribution ages, was: Linux version

2008-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
orked on it! :D See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_mainframe -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a th

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
ID and YUP_PASS to the values in /etc/zmd, so what have I missed? TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a ma

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
SP1 | http://192.168.1.2/... # rug ca Sub'd? | Name| Service ---+-+ Yes| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 -Robin -- --------

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
o. A lot of data is currently being downloaded. -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an'

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-23 Thread Robin Atwood
"Patch finder" and select s390x, nothing is found. If I enter "kernel-default" into the search field, no kernels are found. I am logged in, so please tell me, what is the secret? TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood.

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-23 Thread Robin Atwood
ctly the same as with the previous kernel. I think we need a better manual... -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-24 Thread Robin Atwood
22 3390 SWAP00.3390 0123 3390 LIN002.3390 HTH -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirs

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-25 Thread Robin Atwood
me. I guess that we are all a bit more enlightened about a not very well documented feature. Now to graft the technique onto Gentoo... Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-25 Thread Robin Atwood
you need to add "conmode=3270" to your > parameters in /etc/zipl.conf and re-run zipl. Since I can't get the CVS > version of hercules to build, I cannot verify that. Well, before it didn't work, now, after adding the chccwdev command, it does. -Robin -- ---

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-26 Thread Robin Atwood
e/conmode" parameters to the kernel results in a disabled wait state, although these do not seem to be necessary. -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,

z/VM CTCA won't start

2009-01-18 Thread Robin Atwood
n00b; what have I missed out? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" f

Re: z/VM CTCA won't start

2009-01-20 Thread Robin Atwood
CTC problem. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. -- -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Re: z/VM CTCA won't start

2009-01-20 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2009, Mark Perry wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: > I asked him if he could get me a job > > > in the region! > > > > BTW, I solved the CTC problem. > > -- > > -------