Re: [richard.higson@gt.owl.de: Re: Re: source NMU]
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:28:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I've just installed Caiman under Hercules (P3-450), and am deeply impressed
> that it works at all. The only wart so far seems to be that rm reliably
> segfaults just after unlinking, which is odd - seems like an ideal excuse to
> experiment with building fileutils, though.
>
> (Still chrooted from the installation system - what's the quickest way to
> make the freshly installed system bootable?)
I wasn't able to get SILO to boot directly from an emulated DASD; if you figure
it out, let me know. The complicating factor is that dasd support isn't
compiled into the Caiman kernel; you'll need to load it from an initrd I think.
There is a script on the installation system to switch into the new root
device, but I couldn't get it to work. I don't have much experience with
initrd, and pivot_root isn't included in the version of util-linux that was in
the base system I downloaded (I think may be a newer one now).
> Out of interest, why isn't the binary-s390 tree on auric being used for this?
> At the moment it only seems to contain essential/required and a few other
> bits of the base system - no glibc, even. If I can get packages building
> under Hercules, can I help with uploading things there, or is the Debian port
> tree not being used for some reason?
According to http://www.debian.org/ports/s390/, it's "because core packages
such as binutils and gcc are very unstable."
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- mdz
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