Mark, The FAQ's I'm referring to are those that I could find when I was deciding on which freely available distribution of Linux to install. Here are those URL's both of which don't include Fedora Core Dev (one goes to a huge IBM pdf file): http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246264.pdf and http://www.cbttape.org/linux390.htm. The install went flawlessly. Fedora Core Development is running as its own VM instance on our z800 series IBM mainframe. Since the install, the mainframe has been brought down once for maintenance and then brought up again, Linux restarting and all of the services I have running restarted without a hitch. I've installed Apache 2.0.52, MySQL 4.1 and PHP 5.0.3 as well, all working well. The Linux kernel is 2.6.10-1.1109_FC4. I have SELinux set to the permissive mode. Here's a link to my apache's splash page - http://lnn0203.nebraska.edu/
Why is this so unusual to be running? I had no problems with the install and didn't realize I could have problems or I wouldn't have chose to install Fedora Core Development. Now I'm just surprised I can't find any information on Fedora Core Dev/s390. I need to set up Tomcat and Java. Here is the path to the Fedora's s390 site that updates regularly. It appears there's development going on with many of the packages - http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/s390/ If there's any more information you think I should include, let me know. I can't really write a dissertation because the install went so well. Thanks, Tim Stalker "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] m> To Sent by: Linux on LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 390 Port cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Subject Re: Fedora Core Development 03/08/2005 09:50 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Tim, Which FAQ are you talking about? If you have a pointer for that, I'd like to take a look at it. I was not aware of anyone who was running Fedora on the mainframe. Some time ago, Alan Cox recommended against trying it, because it receives little or no testing on the mainframe, and he had doubts the installer would work at all. If you got it to work, a short dissertation on how that was accomplished would be a nice addition to the archives. I would start with these packages: httpd-2.0.53-5.s390.rpm tomcat5-5.0.30-1jpp_1fc.noarch.rpm When you install them, RPM should tell you of any requisite packages that also need to be installed. For the Java piece, you'll probably have to get IBM's Java: http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p You'll need to register if you haven't already, but there is no cost to do that, or to download the software. If you really want something that looks like Red Hat, without having to pay the price, check out Tao Linux, http://www.taolinux.org/ This is one of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux "rebuilds" that take the source RPMs for RHEL, strip out any of the trademarked items, builds the binary RPMs, and then distributes everything at no cost to you. They have 31-bit (s390) and 64-bit (s390x) packages. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim J Stalker Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:34 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Fedora Core Development Hello, I'm new to this list and was reading the FAQ about linux distributions for s390. I'm wondering why Fedora Core Development isn't included in the list of distributions? I'm running Fedora Core Development which contains SELinux. I would really like to figure out how to get Java, Tomcat and Apache all working together. It's difficult to determine which rpm's to install. Does anyone have experience with Fedora Core Development and Tomcat/Java/Apache on s390 Thanks, Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
