Is now good enough? http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian for S/390 general availability Looking at the distribution links, when might we expect a ISO image download for us that want to "Kick" tie tires ?? Ken At 04:22 PM 7/22/2002 +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote: >On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:29:45PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I am pleased to announce to this list the release of Debian GNU/Linux > > version 3.0 (woody). This latest release of Debian is available for a > total > > of 11 hardware architectures, including, for the first time, IBM S/390. > >Since I was asked this a couple of times, here is a bit more about >Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for S/390: > >We are shipping the standard Linux kernel 2.4.17 with these patches >applied: > >- linux-2.4.17-s390.tar.gz from developerWorks (released on 2002.02.05) >- linux-2.4.17-s390-1-lcs.tar.gz from developerWorks (released on > 2002.03.04) >- linux-2.4.17-s390-2.tar.gz from developerWorks (released on > 2002.04.15) >- a patch by Gerhard Tonn which adds support for a second initrd (this > can be used for OCO modules by the installation system) >- the cpint-patch by Neal Ferguson which allows to invoke CP commands > from Linux >- the cmsfs-patch by Rick Troth which enables read only access to CMS > disks > >This means that the lcs module is included and can also be used by the >installation system. The qdio and qeth OCO modules are not included but >can be downloaded from developerWorks and loaded into the shipped kernel. >Later Debian releases will switch to the 2.4.17 "May 2002 stream" kernel >and include SCSI over FCP support. > >Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 consists of over 8000 binary packages, only less than >50 of them are not available on the S/390 architecture. But this mainly >includes PC-specific packages like boot loaders or hardware management >software, so over 99.5% of all packages are available. This also includes >the complete KDE and Gnome desktop environments with Mozilla 1.0 and movie >players, even if it does not make a lot of sense to run them on S/390. > >LVM, EVMS and the MD tools are included in the distribution but are not >supported by the installation system. This means that you can install the >Debian base system on a DASD and then use these tools to merge multiple >DASDs into a single large volume for application and user data. Debian/390 >supports the traditional ext2 file system and the new ext3 journaling file >system. > >Simple RPM and LSB (Linux Standard Base) packages can be installed with >the alien package. We have successfully tested this with IBM's JDK 1.3.1 >for Linux/390. > >Security updates will be made available for everybody free of charge at >http://security.debian.org/. This page also contains information on how to >automatically or manually download and install them. > >Installation requires 16 MB RAM and 400 MB disk space but more disk space >is highly recommended since packages need to be downloaded into /var before >they can be installed. We did some tests on z/VM with a 16 MB RAM Linux >guest and had no problems running Apache inside it. Of course, more RAM >is needed for most other applications or better performance. > >The Debian S/390 porting team would like to thank the IBM Linux Community >Development System (LCDS) and Millenux for hosting our S/390 build servers >and the IBM labs in Boeblingen for their support. > >Regards, >Stefan Gybas
