Linux for S/390 distribution

2004-06-04 Thread Paul Burke
Putting my toe in the water with Linux for S/390 for the first time. I installed the Marist distribution and configured Linux virtual CTCA to our VM/TCPIP stack to provide full connectivity to our network. With no joy. I spoke to IBM who recommended I use Suse distribution but this would appear

Re: Linux for S/390 distribution

2004-06-04 Thread David Goodenough
with Linux at all it is like jumping in at the deep end. David Paul Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] idata.com cc: Sent by: Linux on 390 Subject: Linux for S/390

Re: Linux for S/390 distribution

2004-06-04 Thread Davis, Larry
Red Hat has a free 30 day trial of there RHEL AS 3.0 with free updates for the 30 days, and it works great. Send an email to Red Hat. Larry Davis -Original Message- From: Paul Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 05:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux for S

Re: Linux for S/390 distribution

2004-06-04 Thread David Boyes
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:02:24AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: Try Debian. It takes a rather different approach, you only download the bits you need as you install them rather than downloading everything and then using what you need to install. Its a bit harder to install, but once

Re: Linux for S/390 distribution

2004-06-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 04:11, Paul Burke wrote: Can anyone recommend an alternative distribution or a site which will be quicker than a day. Debian. The boot-floppies (actually a card deck) are very small--less than 10M, I think. Then you do a network install, and it only downloads the