Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-12 Thread Howard V. Hardiman
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest At which point are you getting that error? If you do a fresh install then just add these dasds your virtual machine before initializing install process (attach or better define minidisks) and let the installator do the job. Installator

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:30:09 -0400 (EDT), Howard V. Hardiman wrote: Okay.. Your help and advice is appreciated. I think I see the picture better now. As a result, I am now starting a fresh install to do so with LVM. I can create vg and lv's just fine (I think, yet to test completely). But

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-12 Thread Howard V. Hardiman
Fair enough I have tried that list before with no response. HH -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Powell Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 5:11 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:37:29 -0400 (EDT), Howard V. Hardiman wrote: Fair enough I have tried that list before with no response. I'm sorry to hear that. But I'll be watching for it. If you post this issue to debian-s...@lists.debian.org, you'll get at least one response: mine. -- .''`.

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-12 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
like normal? HH -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Powell Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:27:08 -0400 (EDT

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Powiedziuk Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest It should be possible depending on what you did so far. If your “/“ is on LVM then you should be able to add new dasd to it’s volume group and extend the logical volume where

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-11 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 08:13:02AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I'd like to pick your brain on your Debian install. I've struggled, the biggest obstacle was ZIPL installit appears that partition has to be laid down just right (/ before any other

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-11 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest Can you see them when you do cat /proc/dasd/devices ? If not than first bring them online (chccwdev -e 0.0.) and then check again. If they are there, than you are ready to do a low level format with dasdfmt /dev/dasdX (/proc

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-11 Thread Howard V. Hardiman
? HH -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grzegorz Powiedziuk Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest It should be possible depending on what you did so far. If your

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-11 Thread Howard V. Hardiman
[mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Powell Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:27:08 -0400 (EDT), Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote: Make sure that when you restart linux, these dasd

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:27:08 -0400 (EDT), Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote: Make sure that when you restart linux, these dasd will automatically show up in /proc/dasd/devices. Stephen suggested over here creating these empty files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware - I don’t know about that. I have never

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-10 Thread Howard V. Hardiman
help you can provide. HH -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grzegorz Powiedziuk Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 3:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest Can you see them when you do cat /proc/dasd

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 08:13:02AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I'd like to pick your brain on your Debian install. I've struggled, the biggest obstacle was ZIPL installit appears that partition has to be laid down just right (/ before any other fs), for instance. Had problems

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-07 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Adding DASD to a Debian guest I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. Any suggestions

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:04:10 -0400 (EDT), Cameron Seay wrote: I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. Any suggestions? All steps

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
in debian as far as I remember it was just a matter of adding a new dasd to zipl.conf , running zipl and that’s it. Gregory Powiedziuk On Aug 6, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 8/6/2015 at 03:04 PM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached 3 mod-9s to a

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Mark Post
On 8/6/2015 at 03:04 PM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. The same as any other

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Scott Rohling
Isn't dasdfmt, lsdasd, et al there? How did you install Debian? Are the ibm driver tools installed?Linux should be able to see it as soon as it's online. You may have to issue chccwdev -e for the disk if it doesn't happen automatically. cat /proc/partitions should give you some

Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Cameron Seay
I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. Any suggestions? -- For

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Can you see them when you do cat /proc/dasd/devices ? If not than first bring them online (chccwdev -e 0.0.) and then check again. If they are there, than you are ready to do a low level format with dasdfmt /dev/dasdX (/proc/dasd/devices will tell you which dasdX is that). After