Re: Creating a Linux partition with HMC

have a look at the redbooks site here:
ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/2006_System_i5_Forum_Session_files/

I looked in the 2005 files and found:
ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/2005_iSeries_Forum_Session_Files/F05LXL11/


ggood luck!

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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/13/2006 05:55:50 PM:

-> 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
->