Re: [richard.higson@gt.owl.de: Re: Re: source NMU]
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
>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.
*shrug* rm.perl will do for now ...
>> (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).
OK, well, chrooting is no problem for 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."
Should have read that - thanks. Once I add this new hard disk and throw
in some more swap, I'll see how builds turn out.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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