The OCO modules are only needed if you are using an OSA on your s390. Their are many other ways to attach a s390 to a network that doesn't use an OSA. They were used long before the recent introduction of the OSA and still work. IBM has said it is their intention to make the OSA driver open code as soon as they get permission. Until they do you could have 2 "bootfloppies" one with the OCO modules for people who only have an OSA to communicate with and one with out for everyone else.
Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, OK 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 -----Original Message----- From: John Galt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 1:45 AM To: Jochen Röhrig Cc: Walter Landry; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Questions concerning S/390 OCO-modules Wait a minute here, is this going where I think it's going? The >>bootfloppies<<< for s390 have non-free modules on them!? Does this requirement of non-free modules ever get remedied, or are these s390 modules going to saddle the entire arch for the forseeable future? On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jochen Röhrig wrote: > >I assume by installer you mean a package that asks the user to download >the modules from the IBM site to a certain place in the filesystem and >then goes on with installation? This makes only sense if the user >already has a network connection. But he won't have a connection without the >modules (s)he is just about to install (at least in most if the cases). >So at least at bootstrap time (where we need the modules on the ramdisk) >this is not really an alternative... > >Best regards, > >Jochen > > > -- The Internet must be a medium for it is neither Rare nor Well done! <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">John Galt </a> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
