On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:36:49AM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:36:49 +0200 > From: Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: some news > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:22:00AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > What about boot-floppies support? Richard? > > We don't need boot-floppies like on i386. What we need is an installer > that configures the system, much like base-config, but with many additions > like network configuration (iucv, ctc, lcs or qeth). The first installation > steps have to be done outside of Linux, e.g. on VM or in an LPAR - we "just" > need documentation for this. I think the new debian-installer is much better > suited for S/390 than the old boot-floppies so maybe we should try to make > it work on S/390 instead of spending a lot of time on boot-floppies. > > We have disussed some details at LinuxTag 2001 but we are not sure if we can > do all this until woody is released. I'll talk to the release manager if > we should try to release woody or not.
The pages I used for the talk at LinuxTag 2001 can be found at http://pax.gt.owl.de/~higson/LinuxTag2001/Deb390-talk.html I'm planning on putting up a 400CYL hercules-bootable DASD and it's tarfile some time next week. (A snapshot of the system I demonstrated at LinuxTag) This will include enough documentation to enable a debian-developer to IPL Debian/390 and `apt-get update` on LPAR, VM or hercules. I really want to build and verify a 2.4.5 kernel based on the patches which (finally) found their way to the developer-works site beforehand though. At the moment I'm at 2.2.19, because of problems I had been having with the CTC on the 2.4.x series. I will describe how to get and install the OCO modules, (2.2.19 and 2.4.5) but not provide them, because I haven't scripted the "install-ritual" yet. You can either just IPL the DASD on hercules, or ... use an existing L390, add a disk, dasdfmt, mke2fs, mount as /mnt, cd /mnt && tar xvf tarfile.tar cd /mnt/boot && make it bootable (I need to learn zilo) To do it the Marist-1 way, I'd need to brutally strip down the size of the initrd (it's too big at the moment). I'm inclined to say that this particular "install-path" isn't available right now... Ideally, we should be able to offer several installation methods, including boot from `debian.ins` on a CDROM at the HMC, but we're not there yet. Richard -- Unix: Your gun, Your bullet, Your foot, Your choice. M$-CE/ME/NT: Same as Unix, BUT: No choice, and We Aim Higher. Have a nice day ;-) Richard Higson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
