I am now working on a SuSE v7.2 distribution for an s390 VM. I found the following tarballed version of MySQL:
mysql-standard-4.0.12-ibm-linux-s390.tar However, I have always had better luck installing MySQL from an RPM file. Unfortunately, none exists for this platform. There is however a MySQL-4.0.1-2.src.rpm file available. On a RH v7.2 distribution, I would simply run an RPM --rebuild MySQL-4.0.1-2.src.rpm, and a legitimate s390.rpm file would be created which would greatly facilitate installation of this package. This did not happen on this newly installed SuSE v7.2 distribution. The fact of the matter is, I would get an 'Installing' message, then another server prompt all within a few seconds. Furthermore, I could not find any 's390.rpm' files on this VM. So, I am unclear what this command did on this distribution. I am in the process of downloading the suse-us-s390 .iso files from the ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/s390/suse-us-s390/ mirror in the hope that they contain something I am more comfortable with.
