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YaST — Conﬁguration

2.4.2 S/390, zSeries: DASD Devices

To add a DASD to an installed system, use the YaST DASD module (‘Hard-

ware’ ➝ ‘DASD’). In the ﬁrst screen, select the disks to make available to

your Linux installation and click ‘Perform Action’. Select ‘Activate’ and

leave the dialog with ‘Next’.

For the current disk set to be persistent after reboot:

If using a dasd list in the parameter list of /etc/zipl.conf (e.g.,

dasd=301,302), edit /etc/zipl.conf to include the new DASD.

If the DASD management is not done via /etc/zipl.conf, issue

cd /boot and mkinitrd. To make sure the new DASD is included

in the setup, check the output of mkinitrd.

Finally, run zipl -V.

2.4.3 Printer

A Linux system manages printers through print queues. Before any data

is printed, it is sent to a print queue for temporary storage. From there, it

is retrieved by a print spooler, which sends it to the printer device in the

required order.

However, this data usually is not available in a form that can be processed

by the printer. A graphical image, for instance, ﬁrst needs to be converted

into a format the printer can understand. This conversion into a printer lan-

guage is achieved with a print ﬁlter, a program called by the print spooler

to translate data as needed, so the printer can handle it.

Note