I have a few questions accumulated, although I'm sure there will be more. I suspect they're in the category of either: A - this is a really stupid question, or B - we've already answered this 1,000 times
My questions so far are:
1. Problem installing
When I went through the Debian installer, I got to a step labelled something like 'Install Kernel and Modules', which didn't. The installer segfaulted, and there was no kernel at all in /target/boot. The only way I could proceed was to manually locate the kernel .deb, transfer it and install that, and then rerun the installer, carefully skipping that step. Is this a known problem, or is it worth my time to reproduce?
2. My apt sources
Whenever I do anything with apt-get, I get a stream of complains that look like: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_main_binary-s390_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
I get one for stable/main, stable/contrib, stable/non-free, and then the whole listing again. What should be in my /etc/apt/sources.list file?
3. fdasd didn't work
fdasd didn't work out of the box because it was an old version. I have built a s390-tools_1.2.4-1_s390.deb package, how do I get it out there?
4. Getting hipersockets working in the installer
There's some mention of setting up a second ramdisk with the OCO drivers, but I never actually found the script to create such a disk. Given that there are now open source drivers for this, is there a replacement installer kernel, and where're the build instructions for the install kernel?
And thanks!
- Alex
Stephen Frazier wrote:
As a subscriber to both lists I would say the answer is YES. :)
The answers you get on the debian-s390 list appear to assume more knowledge about debian than the answers on this list.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debian does indeed have a lot of goodness.
If I were interested in asking some relatively basic Debian-s390 questions (like: how do I update my s390-tools so that fdasd actually works?), would this be the right place? Or should I ask them on the debian-s390 list?
- Alex
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