Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation - Fixed

2009-01-08 Thread Jihad K Kawkabani
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Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Jihad, This is just a thought. When you first logon onto the Linux guest on the 3270 session, are you getting this message? *NIC f003 is created; devices f003-f005 defined * Ron -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/7/2009 at 8:37 AM, Jihad K Kawkabani >>> wrote: -snip- > Here is a partial console listing of what happens during the install: > qeth: Device 0.0.f003/0.0.f004/0.0.f005 is a Guest LAN QDIO card > (level:V40) > with link type GuestLAN QDIO (portname: dontcare) > qeth: Hardware IP fragme

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/7/2009 at 10:56 AM, Robert J Brenneman wrote: -snip- > Then - depending on which install method you use, the installer may > load another ramdisk filesystem into memory to hold all the packages > you're installing. Installations that use http or ftp package sources > have to pull the pac

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/7/2009 at 9:13 AM, "Little, Chris" wrote: > Half a gig to do an installation? (at nobody in particular... Well, maybe a > little towards Novell). > > -Why?- Start a SLES10 SP2 install using SSH. Once you sign in, do a "df -h" command. You'll see 256MB of space being taken up by /m

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mauro Souza
Maybe the installer grabs file by file, puts on its temporary disk and installls it. So, for big rpm files, 64mb wouldn't be enough. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Mark Post

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Perry
Robert J Brenneman wrote: > > > What - you mean everyone doesn't have 8 Gig of memory on their servers? > > > "qu'ils mangent de la brioche." mark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Robert J Brenneman
With respect to Linux installs ( most commercial Z based distributions work the same way ) the installer loads a ramdisk into the system memory to run the installer code. That ramdisk takes up some of the system memory, of course. Then - depending on which install method you use, the installer may

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Little, Chris
, January 07, 2009 08:09 AM Central Standard Time To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation Jihad > here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM: Just looking quickly I see: > ramdisk_size=10016 The default shipped is "ramdisk_siz

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Jihad > here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM: Just looking quickly I see: > ramdisk_size=10016 The default shipped is "ramdisk_size=65536", I believe. I would stick with that. Also, did you do a "DEF STOR 512M" before installing, if by chance the default virtual machine size is smaller than this? Yo

Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Jihad K Kawkabani
Greetings all, I am running z/VM 5.4 on an 2094 IFL and I am trying to install SLES10 SP1 of SUSE Linux. I am using a virtual switch for the network connection. The VM userid I am trying to install from is XG1DTECH here is a coy of the SLES10 PARM: ramdisk_size=10016 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxr