way to go Mark !!
Mr. Speedy !!.... thanks Ken Dreger At 07:15 PM 7/22/2002 -0400, you wrote: >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
