Ho ho ... whoa ... where'd Christmas go?
It was late at my house this year. (Literally, but TL;DR regarding why.)
Sir Santa wanted to drop NORDAUTO EXEC into your stocking. Here 'tis.
http://ltroth1.casita.net/nord/nordauto.exec
http://ltroth1.casita.net/nord/curl.rexx
http://ltroth1.casita.net/nord/nordauto.rtf
http://ltroth1.casita.net/nord/tasha2015.jpg
1B0 with 2000 cylinders, 1B1 with 500 cylinders, NIC at 340 doing layer
2, 256M.
Further details follow. If you're a first-page reader, cut here.
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Tasha is the mascot. (And this is the "Tasha" release of NORD.)
NORDAUTO is a one-shot for bringing up Linux from CMS.
It automatically downloads a kernel and memory FS via the web.
Complete installation works well with 256M. (Shell tested with much less.)
NORDAUTO EXEC is designed to work with any Linux, not exclusively NORD.
If you want to just play with it, forget the disks and the NIC and just
run NORDAUTO.
You'll get a shell. (This is a legit exercise of the fetch feature.)
Does no damage.
The RTF doc discusses the three commands needed for committed installation.
This release of NORD will give you the latest OpenSSL 1.0.1 branch and
OpenSSH and GnuPG.
The kernel and GLIBC are backlevel by design, though further back than
intended. Sorry. 1TAAT
Includes BIND and a sample zone of interest to gray bearded VMers.
Heavily inspired by CMS, there is a boot+system disk which can be shared.
System disk takes 1500 cylinders. (You can give it more.)
Root disk takes 250 cylinders. (You can give it more.)
NIC expects to be coupled to a Layer 2 VSwitch. (If you need L3, just
holler.)
Needs 256M memory. (You can give it more.)
Devices are at pre-defined addresses.
And it's fast.
NORDAUTO EXEC typically runs gets a shell prompt in under 10 sec on the
primary test guest.
(Full disclosure ... same z/VM system as where kernel and INITRD are
hosted, so ... YMMV.)
IPL from installed boot disk is much faster.
It should run from DCSS if you like and/or IPL from NSS.
The Minstrel has been a *huge* help.
He and I turned some attention to the I386 build recently, so the S390
build has kind of been sitting there fermenting.
Brief rationale:
+ secure by design: does not auto-start hopeful helpfuls, only what is
needed
+ trust based open source (verifies author/maintainer signatures)
+ extreme sharing capability: system can be shared, packages can be shared
+ minimal footprint
+ avoid gratuitous interaction (advocate automation)
There are also skeleton builds for LibreSSL 2.1.9 and 2.2.5 (very current).
I trust everyone had a great Christmas and hope you all have a fabulous
2016.
Giving Hanukkah equal time, I wish I were better about recognizing it,
but am learning. (Kislev keeps moving around!) Gotta celebrate triumph
of good people over any despot.
Anyway ... Enjoy!
-- R; <><
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