I have seen this information twice concerning an additional initrd file
containing the IBM OCO files.

First, I would like to thank RH for giving us an alternative to rebuilding
the initrd image and the problems that some have had concerning this. I am a
novice Linux person any help is greatly appreciated. will IBM
developmentworks be placing this OCO module initrd file somewhere for
download, the link in the Release notes seems to take me to the standard
download page.

Is the link
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/download_obj.html
suppose to be where the initrd file will be

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TIA, ___ooO-(_)-Ooo___, Larry Davis


-----Original Message-----
From: Florian La Roche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 08:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 31-bit w/IBM LCS


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:28:38PM -0500, Larry Heath wrote:
> Florian,
>
> What would it take to incent RedHat to generate the 31-bit ramdisk (and
> kernel) with the IBM LCS code integrated??

Hello Larry Heath,

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ contains new images
with:
- kernel-2.4.9-31.1
        - GPL lcs driver for a more Open Source platform thanks to IBM
        - current s390 patches
        - would support installation of OCO modules from a second initrd
- new installation support with a current anaconda
- most updates for 7.2 are already included

So this includes all stable updates as well as some goodies, but please
keep in mind that this is a totally unsupported "rawhide" version that
might just disappear, change unstable, break your hardware etc.

Official updates for Red Hat Linux 7.2 mostly done, only the kernel and
the new install support need some more time. The above rawhide version
should ensure it is tested within enough different setups.

>
> We've got lots of free coffee!

Install "rawhide" and let us know if anything is not working.

Thanks,

Florian La Roche

P.S.: The cvs version of hercules also supports LCS...

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