Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-27 Thread Chris Mattern
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Once upon a time, I spent many a long workday hauling tapes to 3420 tape drives (the big ones, with the 5-foot tall vacuum columns-- my exercise was the

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-26 Thread Mike McCarty
David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Yes. Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduc

RE: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> Yeah. IBM360/65 in about 1966. > But that was my *third* machine. > Before that, an IBM 1620 -- the one that stored its addition > tables and multiplication tables in RAM and did its > arithmetic by table lookup. This machine was (IIRC) called the CADET. Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try. ***

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-26 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:32:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > hendrik writes: > > Before that, an IBM 1620... > > Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it > but submit FORTRAN decks, though. It was actually a Bendix G15d I started on -- the machine with a magn

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Russell L. Harris wrote: Most of the people who complain loudest about the difficulties of printing in Linux never had to depend upon an IBM line printer, the input to which was in the form of 80-column punched cards. ;-) And most of them never knew the utter rapture of owing your very own Epson

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:16:26PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > Having spent much of my life talking to these big-iron beasts, I did a > bit of a double-take. Actually, though, the correct name for the > mainframe series was IBM *System*/360. I actually never worked on a 360. My University had an S/3

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hendrik writes: >> Before that, an IBM 1620... > > Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it > but submit FORTRAN decks, though. > > -- > John Hasler Most of the people who complain loudest about the difficulties of prin

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Having spent much of my life talking to these big-iron beasts, I did a bit of a double-take. Actually, though, the correct name for the mainframe series

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > Before that, an IBM 1620... Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it but submit FORTRAN decks, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:41:57AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line > >and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? > > > > > Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction >

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Wulfy
Simon wrote: Wulfmann, No, not the mainframe :) http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 Yeah... I think the one I learned on was a little larger than that... like "fill the air-conditioned room wi

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Simon
Wulfmann, No, not the mainframe :) http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 On 7/25/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Fink wrote: > Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Wulfy wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old... Relax. You're not! 1967 on an English Electric 4-50 (derived from the RCA

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Scott
Raquel Rice wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Count me in! My first programming was on an

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Raquel Rice
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that > >subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? > > > > > Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an >

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line > >and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? > > Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction > to Computing" class,

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction to Computing" class, back in 1976. I was also taking a 'Musical Computer' cla

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
n check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html > > to find whether there is your ibm model. > > Gook luck > > yf > > On 2006-07-25, Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi There, > > > > > > Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? T

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Ye Fei
t; Gook luck > yf > On 2006-07-25, Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? The specs > > for this server are: > > > > - 4 x Intel Xeon Processor MP 1.4Ghz > > - 4gb DDR Register

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old... -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate wit

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Fink
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! --

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Ye Fei
Hi, maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html to find whether there is your ibm model. Gook luck yf On 2006-07-25, Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi There, > > Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? The specs > for this server are: > >

Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Simon
Hi There, Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? The specs for this server are: - 4 x Intel Xeon Processor MP 1.4Ghz - 4gb DDR Registered SDRAM DIMM memory - 2 x 72gb 10k Ultra160 Hard drives - Serveraid 4LX Ultra 160 SCSI RAID controller - 1.44 Floppy drive and CDRom

Re: ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-21 Thread anoop aryal
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 08:26 am, TAC Forums wrote: > > Any idea or link someone (google was not helpful, nor was IBM websites) ? > > I called up IBM and they said the server was not supported under > Debian GNU/Linux. they only supported Red Hat and Suse linux. > > Any ideas why IBM does not l

Re: Re: ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-20 Thread Frank
I have tried getting the RaidMan utility to work on Debian with both matching driver versions and with mismatched versions IPSSend works fine. I would be interested in helping to get this working ips :01:05.0: Warning ! ! ! ServeRAID Version Mismatch ips :01:05.0: Bios = 7.10.18, Firmw

Re: ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-15 Thread TAC Forums
hi guys I'm slowly beginning to understand how my debian server has been setup. == ips 03:0e.0:Warning ! ! ! ServeRAID Version Mismatch ips 03:0e.0:Bios = 7.10.20, Firmware = 7.10.20, Device Driver = 7.00.15 == The above means my ip

Re: ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-15 Thread TAC Forums
hey I figured i'll do a check on the version of ips that's loaded with my debian install. i did a 'dmesg' and noticed this === SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 ips 03:0e.0:Warning ! ! ! ServeRAID Version Mismatch ips 03:0e.0:Bios = 7.10.20, Firmwar

Re: ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-15 Thread TAC Forums
> Any idea or link someone (google was not helpful, nor was IBM websites) ? I called up IBM and they said the server was not supported under Debian GNU/Linux. they only supported Red Hat and Suse linux. Any ideas why IBM does not like to support debian Gnu/Linux? I personally think they are going

Re: ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-15 Thread TAC Forums
> I have got different IBM server (Netfinity 5000 and xSeries 336) with > ServeRaid SCSI card controllers. I've got xSeries 236 - Type 8841 > I would like to manage disks drived by these controllers with the IBM > software found on CD delivered with the servers. Same here. :-) > I am able

ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-05 Thread Bruno Beaufils
I have got different IBM server (Netfinity 5000 and xSeries 336) with ServeRaid SCSI card controllers. I would like to manage disks drived by these controllers with the IBM software found on CD delivered with the servers. I am able to run both ipssend and RaidMan (a java GUI). The problem is tha

Re: IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-20 Thread Petar Forai
t; Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit > > architecture ? > > 32. It uses Xeon(s) with HT, so you probably would want SMP kernel, but > it's definitely a 32-bit machine.

Re: IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-20 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Claudio Plateroti napisał(a): Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit architecture ? 32. It uses Xeon(s) with HT, so you probably would want SMP kernel, but it's definitely a 32-bit machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:33:46PM -0300, Claudio Plateroti wrote: > Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit architecture ? All that Google can find me is that it uses an Intel Xeon processor or two. My guess is 32 bit - but you'd need to find an IBM salesman or down

IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-19 Thread Claudio Plateroti
Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit architecture ?

Re: Linux 2.6.10 kernel with IBM xSeries 336, HP DL360G4 & ASUS AP2400R servers

2005-09-05 Thread valentin_nils
r conducting our field >> trials. The potential servers that we are looking for should be able to >> satisfy the following two major requirements. >> >> 1. Ability to run on Linux 2.6.10, 2.6.12 kernels without any hardware >> or driver problems >> 2. Ability to work

Re: Linux 2.6.10 kernel with IBM xSeries 336, HP DL360G4 & ASUS AP2400R servers

2005-09-04 Thread valentin_nils
um TE411P ISDN (this comes with on board > echo cancellation) and asterix. In fact this is a serious issue for us > as it does not compatible with our existing prototype server which we > were told would be compatible with Digium TE411P ISDN card . > > After surveying in the Internet we

Linux 2.6.10 kernel with IBM xSeries 336, HP DL360G4 & ASUS AP2400R servers

2005-08-29 Thread Ravindra Ranasinghe
does not compatible with our existing prototype server which we were told would be compatible with Digium TE411P ISDN card .    After surveying in the Internet we have tentatively decided that IBM xSeries 336 , HP DL360G4 and ASUS AP2400R U1  would be a potential servers  working with a suitable

Re: Sarge, IBM xSeries 346 Ultra320 Hot-Swap HardDisk

2005-07-10 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:57 -0300, Tomás Corrêa wrote: > Hello, > > I´m trying to install debian sarge into a IBM xSeries 346 with 3 > Ultra320 Hot-Swap HardDisk and the installation process can’t find my > HD. > The installation kernel may not have a driver for your sc

Sarge, IBM xSeries 346 Ultra320 Hot-Swap HardDisk

2005-07-09 Thread Tomás Corrêa
Hello,   I´m trying to install debian sarge into a IBM xSeries 346 with 3  Ultra320 Hot-Swap HardDisk and the installation process can’t find my HD.   Does anyone have any ideia how to solve this problem?   Thanks   Tomás

ibm xseries x336/x346

2004-12-06 Thread debbie
Hi, is there anybody who succeeded in installing debian on a ibm xseries x336 (or x346) server? I have experienced the installation on older x335/x345 and I am wondering whether the emt64 platform brings additional difficulties or not. Thanks Debbie -- questo articolo e` stato inviato via web

Re: ibm xseries

2004-11-18 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El jue, 18-11-2004 a las 06:18 -0800, mchael chileshe escribió: > Hi > > I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can > not pick the on board ethernet card. > > How can i configure the on board card? > > I have already installed debian 3.0 using a 3com pci network car

Re: ibm xseries

2004-11-18 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:18:49 -0800 (PST), mchael chileshe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can not > pick the on board ethernet card. > > How can i configure the on board card? > > I have already installed debian 3.

ibm xseries

2004-11-18 Thread mchael chileshe
Hi   I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can not pick the on board ethernet card.   How can i configure the on board card?   I have already installed debian 3.0 using a 3com pci network card. I am migrating from redhat. And this is the only obstacle in this process...

Re: Debian and IBM xSeries 336 8676-71x - LSI 53C1030 SCSI controller

2004-08-09 Thread mailinglist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:58, venerdì 6 agosto 2004, Andraz Sraka ha scritto: > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 16:44, Dino wrote: > > We have a new IBM xSeries 335 8676-71X with 1GB RAM, two SCSI Disks 10K > > RPM 36.4GB and a LSI 53C1030 Mirroring Raid control

Re: Debian and IBM xSeries 336 8676-71x - LSI 53C1030 SCSI controller

2004-08-06 Thread Andraz Sraka
re On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 16:44, Dino wrote: > We have a new IBM xSeries 335 8676-71X with 1GB RAM, two SCSI Disks 10K RPM > 36.4GB and a LSI 53C1030 Mirroring Raid controller. > > We have problems installing Debian Woody 3 because it doesn't recognize the > Logical Volum

Debian and IBM xSeries 336 8676-71x - LSI 53C1030 SCSI controller

2004-08-06 Thread Dino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm Dino Ciuffetti, Linux network administrator. We have a new IBM xSeries 335 8676-71X with 1GB RAM, two SCSI Disks 10K RPM 36.4GB and a LSI 53C1030 Mirroring Raid controller. We have problems installing Debian Woody 3 because it do

Re: IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86

2004-06-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi John, Dont you still need an X windows server? How do you run vnc and a window manager without a x-windows server? The X server is what displays the X client to your display device. Thus you can run VNC or individual X applications on a remote machine (that has no X server

Re: IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86

2004-06-23 Thread Simon Buchanan
; Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: Re: IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86 > Simon Buchanan wrote: > > >Hi There, > > > >can someone please help me... Im going MAD. Im trying to install Oracle on > >an IBM xSeries 335. Todo so the Oracle installer needs X to ru

Re: IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, can someone please help me... Im going MAD. Im trying to install Oracle on an IBM xSeries 335. Todo so the Oracle installer needs X to run. I have run apt-get xserver etc etc etc and run thru the config It just wont run. Here is the XFree86-4 file: This is a pre

IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, can someone please help me... Im going MAD. Im trying to install Oracle on an IBM xSeries 335. Todo so the Oracle installer needs X to run. I have run apt-get xserver etc etc etc and run thru the config It just wont run. Here is the XFree86-4 file: This is a pre-release version of

RE: Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread Michael Kahle
> I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, Had the same problem tracking this down myself. > does anybody have a working link to a driver disk (or can instruct me > how to compile the module so it will load)? This page got me started on

Re: Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 09:24, Izi Goldenberg wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, > but the installer doesn't recognize the card. after googling for it, I > found some links to disk drivers, but they aren't a

Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread Izi Goldenberg
Hi I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, but the installer doesn't recognize the card. after googling for it, I found some links to disk drivers, but they aren't available anymore. I tried to compile the ips.o module on another computer (downlo

Re: Help! IBM xSeries 360

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:19:47PM -0500, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian wrote: > That would be the Woody 3.0r0 running the 2.2.20 kernel. Sorry, I should > have mentioned that. As it worked out I was able to get the installation to > work using the floppy disks under > /dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23

RE: Help! IBM xSeries 360

2002-11-08 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
Brian -Original Message- From: James Troup [mailto:james@;nocrew.org] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:19 PM To: Kimsey-Hickman, Brian Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Help! IBM xSeries 360 "Kimsey-Hickman, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get De

Re: Help! IBM xSeries 360

2002-11-08 Thread James Troup
"Kimsey-Hickman, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get Debian on a new IBM xSeries 360 with an Adaptec 7892 > adapter and Utra 160 SCSI hard drives. Debian with the normal CD install > can't see the drives. I was thinking about using the drivers f

Help! IBM xSeries 360

2002-11-08 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
I am trying to get Debian on a new IBM xSeries 360 with an Adaptec 7892 adapter and Utra 160 SCSI hard drives. Debian with the normal CD install can't see the drives. I was thinking about using the drivers from the floppies but I could not find anything saying if those drivers are there.