Richard, A 130MB image is going to be pretty skinny. I think the smallest Red Hat image I installed was about 190MB. Maybe we should shoot for a 2-CD set? If not, perhaps we should talk about exactly what is to be installed on this (very) skinny images. (We should probably talk about that anyway.)
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Richard Higson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OK who messed with the redbook? On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:07:38PM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:07:38 -0400 > From: "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OK who messed with the redbook? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Richard, > > I've got a running Red Hat 7.2 (very minimal) system up. What exactly would > you want from me? > > Mark Post I want to do a sorta "Linux/390 sampler CD". Ideally, you would choose which Linux flavour you want to play with and then just IPL it. On your PC (Linux or Windows, at home or at work) I think this would make it easier for the sysprog's to play with their distro of choice on their pissy at home or work, without fear of creating havoc on a system, or having to beg for access to the HMC. In other words, MINDSHARE. So, what I want is a single mini-disk for each distro, so that we can get all distro's on a single CD, and then set it up to run with "Volker's Tu{r|n}key Spezial". For those of you who don't know "Volker's Turnkey Spezial", take a look at http://www.cbttape.org/cdrom.htm and/or http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/hercules/ For the Linux people who don't know cbttape.org, check it out. They started doing free software on tapes a long time before any of us even knew that software could be open or free. OK, here we go... For each of the distro's in Redhat, SuSE, Turbo, Debian, ThinkBlue/64 (Have I missed any?) I'd like a single bootable CCKD DASD Image about 1/5th of a CDROM large. (No need for a swap partition, a single SWAP should be OK) Standardised "HW" possibly similar to what I have for my Debian/390 200 3390 DEB390-CCKD sf=DEB390-shadow_ nosyio 201 3390 SWAP-CCKD sf=SWAP-shadow_ nosyio A000 3088 CTCI (windows or Linux syntax, standardised IPADDR) A001 3088 CTCI ???? 3505 ./rdr/whatever ???? 3420 ./tape/whatever.TDF If we have enough room, I'd like to include a "boot_dir" containing ${distro}/boot/lpar_kernel ${distro}/boot/lpar_parmline ${distro}/boot/lpar_initrd which we could move to ${target_dir}${distro} and unzip the initrd If done properly, this can be IPLed from the Console directly, just like the HMC IPL Disclaimer1: Hercules is "getting ready for" a new release "real soon now". (I don't announce things, Jay does that when he is ready.) It would make sense to time the Linux/390 CD-set some time after the initial Hercules_2.16 dust has settled. Disclaimer2: I haven't talked to Volker about these plans at all, so I don't know how this fits in with his schedule, and we both have day jobs. Building on Volkers existing CD has the advantage that all of the windows stuff has been done the way it should be done. (I don't have windows here, so I wouldn't know). I have played with Volker before (http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/hercules/os390/) and we both had fun, and were able to learn from each other. Disclaimer3: I haven't talked to Sam & Sam at cbttape.org about their plans at http://www.cbttape.org/linux390.htm, and I don't want to step on toes. However, I _do_ think that there's a need for a Linux/390 playground. In terms of Bandwidth, I can host this at source.rfc822.org, and I'm sure we'll find a home for it on other continents as well. Richard -- I stand corrected: M$-Exchange *IS* RFC-Compliant. RFC1925 Para 2 Section (3) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html Have a nice day ;-) Richard Higson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
