On Thursday 11 December 2003 22:20, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:02:15PM +0100, Werner Baur wrote:
> > Deon George schrieb:
> >
> > One of the major problems we see with linux as tsm server platform is
> > that you forced to use a well-defined but very restricted range of linux
> > flavors which is supported by IBM. For example, we would like to use
> > Suse9 which is our standard system for all our linux serves but are
> > pinned to SLES 8 if we want to get support from IBM any longer.
>
> I tried TSM on some other Linux kernels. It runs fine as long as you
> dont use and tape drives.  To use tape drives you need the tsm.devices rpm
> for tape drivers.  uThe point is that this rpm contains support for only
> a few linux kernel versions.
What you can do is install any linux distribution you want.  After that,
compile a new kernel from the source of one of the supported distributions.
I used the SUSE 2.4.18 kernel source on a debian box.  And it worked flawless.

Stef

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