Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-10 Thread David Boyes
> We want to install LINUX on our G5 in LPAR mode. I'll make the comment that this should be a temporary measure at best and move on. You will not want to run this way in production. > 1) What LINUX distribution is the most popular for the S390? > Advantages/disadvantages? SuSE has had a sign

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Adam Thornton
> One more question... > We have two GbE OSA adapters used by our production system for TCPIP. >Is there any problem sharing one of these with the LINUX LPAR? Funny you should ask. Since you say LINUX LPAR, I'm assuming you have a single Linux image in an LPAR, rather than a network of penguins

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Post, Mark K
t: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Questions Wow! Thanks to everyone for all the great info! One more question... We have two GbE OSA adapters used by our production system for TCPIP. Is there any problem sharing one of these with the LINUX LPAR? T

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Martin
Wow! Thanks to everyone for all the great info! One more question... We have two GbE OSA adapters used by our production system for TCPIP. Is there any problem sharing one of these with the LINUX LPAR? Thanks again! Mike Martin Systems Programmer Wake Med Information Services 3000 New Bern A

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:56:40AM -0500, Scott Chapman wrote: > 1) My feeling is that SuSE is probably the most popular for s390 at the > moment, but I don't have any hard data to back that up. If you just want > to "play" Debian is unencumbered by any issues with a vendor wanting money > from y

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Post, Mark K
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Questions -snip- Before the initial install system is IPLed, there is a parameter that can/should be used to limit the disk addresses that Linux will be able to use. It will sense them all, but wi

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Chapman
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Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Rich Smrcina
I don't know that there's so much an advantage of one distribution over the other. The decision can boil down to a few things: company standard, price, personal preference, maybe more. If your corporate standard dictates that you run a certain distribution, then this problem is essentially solved

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/07/2003 at 10:38 EST, Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We want to install LINUX on our G5 in LPAR mode. I have a couple of basic > questions... > > 1) What LINUX distribution is the most popular for the S390? > Advantages/disadvantages? > > 2) The extra LPAR tha

Re: Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Post, Mark K
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie Questions Hi all, We want to install LINUX on our G5 in LPAR mode. I have a couple of basic questions... 1) What LINUX distribution is the most popular for the S390? Advantages/disadvantages? 2

Newbie Questions

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Martin
Hi all, We want to install LINUX on our G5 in LPAR mode. I have a couple of basic questions... 1) What LINUX distribution is the most popular for the S390? Advantages/disadvantages? 2) The extra LPAR that we have setup, has an IOCP definition that shares ALL disk drives with our OS/3

Re: newbie questions

2002-06-05 Thread paultz
Bruce, >1. What is the best distro to use for this purpose? I >realize there may be several different good answers to >this question, I'm just looking for opinions here. You are correct, opionions vary. But you indicated a preference for rpms? Why not consider the Rh7.2? >2. Where are the

Re: newbie questions

2002-06-05 Thread Post, Mark K
ing list's participants, etc. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Bruce Tobin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie questions -snip- I'd really like something on which the redhat s390 rpms install cleanly and easily.

newbie questions

2002-06-05 Thread Bruce Tobin
My company is doing an s390 linux pilot next month. hardware: 9672-R56 running z/VM I'd like to see the machine configured for running one or several mysql/apache/php stacks, with as many php bells and whistles as we can find and successfully install. I'd really like something on which the redha