On 06/21/2018 11:51 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > On 06/21/2018 04:35 PM, Tuan M. Hoang wrote: >> Hi Christian, >> >> On 06/13/2018 03:32 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> On 06/13/2018 05:58 AM, Tuan M. Hoang wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> The Alpine Linux Project has released the the 2nd release candidate for >>>> its 3.8 stable series with support for z/VM and KVM. >>>> >>>> For the installation guide and more information, please visit : >>>> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/S390x. >>> >>> Thanks for the good writeup. >>> Will there also be a bootable iso image to simplify the KVM installation >>> even >>> more? >> >> rc8 includes a bootable iso image for KVM. Please try it out at: >> http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/releases/s390x/alpine-standard-3.8.0_rc8-s390x.iso > > I can easily boot that iso image with kvm: > > $ qemu-system-s390x -enable-kvm -nographic -cdrom > alpine-standard-3.8.0_rc8-s390x.iso > LOADPARM=[ ] > Using virtio-blk. > ISO boot image size verified > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > [...] > Welcome to Alpine Linux 3.8 > Kernel 4.14.51-0-vanilla on an s390x (/dev/console) > localhost login: > > > same happens with virt-install. So its an ready to use image but not an > installer? >
Please login as root (no pwd) and motd will indicate running setup-alpine to start the installer. Alpine boot media (both netboot and ISO on all arch) are like a live cd image, where you can choose to explore Alpine or run the installer. >> >>>> >>>> For running Alpine in Docker, please visit : >>>> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/S390x/Docker. >>>> >>>> If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this thread or >>>> send an email to this list, or alpine-de...@lists.alpinelinux.org, or >>>> reach out at IRC channels #alpine-linux or #alpine-devel at Freenode, or >>>> use #alpinelinux on Twitter. >>>> >> >> Tuan >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
