Re: Creating a Linux partition with HMC

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryan,

Great link, not so much for the HMC stuff but for all the other stuff in 
there.  Is there a link from the redbooks site that helped you find this 
or did you get the link from elsewhere?

This is really good stuff!

Pete


Bryan Dietz wrote:
> have a look at the redbooks site here:
> ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/2006_System_i5_Forum_Session_files/
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> I looked in the 2005 files and found:
> ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/2005_iSeries_Forum_Session_Files/F05LXL11/
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> ggood luck!
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> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/13/2006 05:55:50 PM:
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> -> 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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