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> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Pasi Pirhonen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: TaoLinux install
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 

<snip>

> 
> Another thing would be once again, the TDF-file. It's not needed for
> recent hercules at all. There is that 'generic.ins' at root. 
> You should
> just modiffy the path right (if not working right out of the box) and
> do 'ipl generic.ins' which should do the magic.
> 
> The CTC-driver will still hang when you do select the installation
> method. The easy fix is to keep line
> 
> .ifconfig ctc0 down ; ifconfig ctc0 up ; route add default gw <GW-IP>
> 
> handy and paste that to hercules console when the reset occurs.
> Sometimes three times before it gets up again (depens of the timing
> IMO).
> 
> The installation of this update2 release is tested ONLY under 
> hercules.
> I know it's wortking under hercules, but didn't bother to waste cycles
> on real iron to test if it's working there (up to date updated guest
> under z/VM is working, but the actual installation is not tested).
> 
> There were try to do some 'BASE protection' against 3rd party
> repositories not being able to update BASE-system packages.
> Unfortunately that depends of the Vendor-string of the tao-release. I
> have different vendor tags all over the packages, so it's not working
> for Tao. I intend to recompile whole thing before update3 to have all
> correct vendor tags, but that's still few months ahead .....
> 
> Something else, i forget now ..... happy hacking with Tao. If there is
> even one user beoynd myself, it's not waste of time keeping it updated
> :)
> 
> 
> --
> Pasi Pirhonen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://iki.fi/upi/
> 

Thanks so much. I saw that "generic.ins" but didn't understand it. I
have kept up with the current Hercules releases, but haven't really read
the documentation on all of the enhancements. 

Also, thanks for making TaoLinux.


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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
UICI Insurance Center
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