I know you're not in the "support" business but I'll ask anyway. I'm attempting to update my origianl S390 Tao Linux to the latest one. I'm running Tao on a real IBM mainframe in an LPAR, no z/VM. I've tried a couple of different approaches to update my distribution.
First, I download the DVD ISO to my PC and extracted the files onto my hard drive using a Windows utility called MagicISO. I then FTP'ed the contents of this directory to my Tao Linux LPAR. I updated my yum.conf to point to my directory where I FTP'ed the files to. I ran "yum update". For a while everything looks good, yum finds everything he is looking for. But when I actually get into the part where yum is extracting files from the RPMS I get extraction errors on many RPMS. I can't remember the exact error message but it is something to the effect of archive extract for file xxxxxx failed for cpio, or something like that. Well I thought, I'm not doing things exactly like I should, i.e. FTP'ing the ISO image to my Tao LPAR and mounting it on the loop back device. Why didn't I do it that way, well the ISO image is 3.3 Gb and I don't have a 3390 model disk drive that holds that much. So by extracting the ISO image my PC first I can remove the SRPMS, which frees up quite a bit of space. Second, I restored my Tao DASD images from a backup taken prior to my attempted update. I'm using Linux CDL formated volumes so I can shutdown Tao and use my OS/390 backup/restore utilities. After the restore I just ran "yum update" and allowed it to download everything from the Tao site. But the same thing occurs when it starts trying to extract files from some of the RPMS. The same files/problems as in my first attempt. Do you have any words of wisdom? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
