6. Expiriences

6.1 General

The system I'm developing with is currently not in a production state yet.

6.2 A Terminal Server Solution

I've installed a modified version of the ``Linux Terminal Server Project'' http://www.ltsp.org on the AS/400, using the IPCS as the terminal server. BTW: Linux kernel-level DHCP and the AS/400 as a DHCP-Server seem to be incompatible. Use BOOTP!

6.3 Running StarOffice 5.2

I've successfully installed StarOffice 5.2 on the IPCS. First I tried to install it by mounting a Directory on the AS/400 under /opt/so52, however that caused an ``Aborted'' message when trying to run the installer.

Then I used the loopback mount trick as second time to mount a 300 MByte ext2 filesystem under /opt/so52 and populated it using an installation from my debian box. After populating it I re-mounted it read-only before doing any user-level configuration.

Staroffice works nicely that way. The first start takes about 50 seconds, but afterwards it's in the client-cache and another start takes only 5 seconds.

6.4 Shutting down

Since linux is not integrated into the OS/400 environment the way NT is, it will not get informed on a shutdown caused by varying off the network server description.

You need do perform a shutdown from linux.

6.5 File System Integrity

You may check and correct filesystem integrity from any linux box in the net as long as the IPCS is varied off and you've choosen NFS-Permissions to allow access from that box.

After a dirty shutdown or a power problem you don't need to go to the IPCS console to fix filesystem problems.

	# Mount the AS/400
   mount as400:/linux /mnt/as400

   # Start filesystem integrity check
   e2fsck -f /mnt/as400/netfinity/netfinity.disk