On Tuesday 12 July 2005 23:52, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > Please add a cd-based install image for S/390, as detailed in this > debian-s390 mailing list thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2005/07/msg00024.html I think I've managed to create a "bootable" CD image. It is available for testing from [1]. Basically, I have revived the code that was already available in Woody. The primairy purpose of this image is to test if it boots. I may have made mistakes building it which could cause an installation to fail later on. Some remarks Although it should now be possible to boot the installation off the CD, the installation method is still basically network based as there is no option to mount the CD and load installer components off it. It should be possible to create a real CD-based installation, but that would require some new d-i modules and a different initrd. I'm not sure if that is worth the trouble though. There are 2 files in /boot that should be usable: - d390.ins - d390.tdf The first file is identical to the one that RedHat uses. There are 2 other files that are provided as example (d390oco.ins and d390oco.tdf). From the build scripts: # The following is provided as an example. It will not work when the # tape is emulated from the official Debian CD-ROM since the object- # code-only-modules-ramdisk (oco.bin) is not included in the CD-ROM. Some questions There is also a "tape nolabel" kernel included on the CD, but that is not referenced anywhere. Is that kernel useful at all? I would still be very interested to know if it's possible to boot this CD image in the hercules emulator :-) [1] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/debian-testing-s390-netinst.iso
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