Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-13 Thread Martha McConaghy
Tom, I've installed both SLES 8 and SLES 9 (64 bit) under z/VM 5.1.0. I had lots of problems, but most were due to my inexperience with Linux. Actually installing the files was not a problem, though. I used an FTP server on my Windows XP system named GuildFTP (a successor to War, I gather). I

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I've tried Suse service. I get one email reply every 24-36 hours. That was fine for some problems, this shows the need for a Level 1 support (which we just haven't found the money to pay for). It took two weeks for them to come to the conclusion that installing via Windows SMB over a real CD, wa

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-11 Thread Wiggins, Mark
No, I'm using an ftp server on a Debian instance that I've got. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Stewart Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation Are you perha

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 01/11/2005 at 11:36 CST, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really starting to wonder about Linux. I'm also have been trying to > install it and it fails at different points using the exact same setup. > > In the mainframe world, when you do the exact same thing, you get th

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
e- >From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Marcy Cortes >Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:38 PM >To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation > > >Yes, we've successfully installed SLES9 on z/VM 5.1. Mounted the .

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-11 Thread Lee Stewart
'm using the s390x RPM's for 64 bit z/VM. I'm at a loss... Tried everything that I can think of. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:38 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-11 Thread Wiggins, Mark
M. I'll also say that I'm using the s390x RPM's for 64 bit z/VM. I'm at a loss... Tried everything that I can think of. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:38 PM To: LINU

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread Robert J Brenneman
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 10/01/2005 15:41 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Suse 9.0 installation I have the SLES9 eval running on z/VM 5.1. The mkinstallroot script was the key. Has anyone successfully implemented LVM on

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
, Mark Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation So, have you successfully installed SLES9 on z/VM 5.1??? Actually, has anyone successfully installed SLES8 or SLES9 on z/VM 5.1? The reason that I ask is I can install SLES8 on our z/VM 3.1

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
al Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:27 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Suse 9.0 installation So, have you successfully installed SLES9 on z/VM 5.1??? Actually, has anyone successfully installe

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread Wiggins, Mark
rk Wiggins University of Connecticut Operating Systems Programmer 860-486-2792 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:05 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation I know that this

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread Little, Chris
never be shy to accept misplaced credit ;) -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:31 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation No, that was Mike MacIsaac, not me. Mark Post -Original Message

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread dclark
Fair enough, -- Sorry Mike! Still, the script works great for this purpose. -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:31 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation No, that was Mike MacIsaac, not me. Mark

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread Post, Mark K
No, that was Mike MacIsaac, not me. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:05 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation I know that this is late in the game

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-10 Thread dclark
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:04 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation I can add my experiences trying to install SLES9 on a z/VM 5.1 system...and none of them are good. My installation server is an Intel box, running SuSE SLES9. The Intel box

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-09 Thread Post, Mark K
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 1:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation -snip- P.S. Isn't the just the greatest list or what? I asked an obscure question late on a Saturday night and had three responses, all correct, by Sunday morning...thanks a bu

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-09 Thread Dave Jones
Thanks for all the pointers to what I was missing, Les, Mark and Rob. I just had to give the installation process the relative path to where I had mounted the CD iso images, and all worked as designed. The path, btw, is relative to the FTP logon user id, so you just need to specify how to reach the

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 22:20:22 -0700, Lee Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Note in the release notes that you have to setup a special directory > tree structure to hold the contents of all six CDs at once... (with some > extra links) With fascinating things like mounting the 2nd CD on mount

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-08 Thread Lee Stewart
for it. I am running MP3000, lpar with the nics on the MP3000. Zoltan -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: S

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-08 Thread Post, Mark K
Dave Jones Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:04 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation I can add my experiences trying to install SLES9 on a z/VM 5.1 system...and none of them are good. My installation server is an Intel box, running SuSE SLES9. The Intel box has a gre

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-08 Thread Dave Jones
lpar with the nics on the MP3000. Zoltan -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 in

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the last time FTP. Added bonus the PC is a great playground and you can always get hard drives . Regards Gerard Ceruti -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: 05 January 2005 07:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-06 Thread David Boyes
> Why not just "convert" the CD-ROMs to ISO images, upload them to your > current SuSE system, mount them using loopback and avoid the > Windows(PoS) system entirely? I'd say that if it's documented to work with SMB, then it really ought to work *w/o* having to do a lot of hokey workarounds. For t

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-06 Thread Herczeg, Zoltan
05 12:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.maris

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:07:02 +0200, Ceruti, Gerard G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Added bonus the PC is a great playground and you can always get hard drives And if you are careful it is even possible to mount the disk space of your workstation in the Linux server running on the mainframe. You don

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-06 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
d and you can always get hard drives . Regards Gerard Ceruti -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: 05 January 2005 07:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 9.0 installation 1. Ties up too much disk space (cost

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-05 Thread dclark
:34 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Suse 9.0 installation This is a very narrow focus questiondon't want to get on any other topics. Has anyone, installed Suse 9.0, from the evaluation CDs, via Windows SMB? My responses noted. 1. What hardware platform? ( VM) 2. What IP m

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
1. Ties up too much disk space (cost item) vs using existing CD drive (free). 2 3390-3 for Suse image. 2 3390-3 for iso images. 2 3390-3 drives to copy the contents of the CDs to the directory structure Suse says is necessary for NFS. 2. Started to do this method. But I need to give the drive

Re: Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-05 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:34 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Suse 9.0 installation > > > This is a very narrow focus questiondon

Re: SuSE 9.0 installation

2005-01-05 Thread James Melin
ED] IST.EDU> Subject Suse 9.0 installation 01/05/2005 10:33 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suse 9.0 installation

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
This is a very narrow focus questiondon't want to get on any other topics. Has anyone, installed Suse 9.0, from the evaluation CDs, via Windows SMB? My responses noted. 1. What hardware platform? ( VM) 2. What IP method (IUCV) 3. What PC operating system used (Windows 2000) 4. How did y