Re: Creating a Linux partition with HMC

Peter

Glenn

At 05:55 PM 8/13/2006, Pete Helgren wrote:

I have used the LPM to create a Linux Partition but I haven't done so
with the HMC and the HMC approach seems very different, based on what I
have been able to research.

Anyone have a good "step by step" guide to using the HMC to create a
Linux partition using virtual I/O ? I found a pretty good HMC tutorial
in the Redbook "Logical Partitions on the i5" the subtitle of which is
"A Guide to Planning and Configuring LPAR with HMC on System i".
Interestingly, it doesn't address Linux using the HMC, only Linux using
LPM (although the subtitle would indicate otherwise).

I have a customer with an iSeries 520 9406 running V5R3M0.  They have
two processors, 1 currently dedicated to an i5/OS partition for
production, and 1 currently dedicated to an i5/OS development
partition.  I'd like to change the development partition so that it was
sharing the processor and then create a Linux partition that was using,
say .2 of the processor.

I set it up the way I thought I should but when I try to activate the
Linux partition, it tells me that I don't have the resources available
to do that.  So, I am guessing that my guesswork and assumptions were
wrong as I blundered through trying to set it up. Rather than pepper
this list with the details, if I had a good step by step example of
slicing up a partition for Linux using the HMC, I could at least assume
that I got the steps right, then walk through the details.

Anyone point me to a good "step by step" guide to using the HMC to
create a Linux partition using virtual I/O ?

Thanks.

Pete Helgren


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