You need to go to the Debian lists. Some people have placed a Debian S390 install DVD in the HMC and IPL from it. It seems to work for some people. Someone is working on a liveDVD that will work on any machine. The last I heard he had it running on about 4 different kinds of machines (Intel, RS6000, ADM64 and something else). I don't think S390 was one of them.
McKown, John wrote:
OK, I've not been getting enough sleep, lately, so my mind is really weird. OK, weirder than usual (which is pretty weird). And I wasn't sure which forum (IBM-Main, IBMVM, or Linux-390) to post this one. But I decided on this one. Anyway. One thing that a PC can do is boot from a network source, called PXE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment). Now, IBM has made it so that an appropriate OS (i.e. Linux) can IPL from a SAN (SCSI IPL). I was just considering what it might take to IPL from a network server instead. Granted, this would likely only be to IPL Linux. And I guess something like this could be emulated by booting PXE compatable software from a DVD on the HMC. I was just thinking that this might be an interesting way to "bootstrap" a Linux installation environment. Also, I wonder if a "Linux for System z" liveDVD would be possible. Or does such a thing already exist? I really need more sleep.
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