I found Matt Zimmerman's disk image to be the ideal 'starter' for use with hercules. (http://people.debian.org/~mdz/hercules/) At less than 50MB, his 3390 disk image allowed me to build a complete system with relative ease, considering my experience with the platform. Between that and the excellent install instructions on the Debian site, I have a fantastic installation.
Even if you are not using the Hercules emulator, the Debian install instructions are quite useful. Find them here: http:www.debian.org/releases/woody/s390/install.en.html -Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > >
