Re: S/390 woody status
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:55:23PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> + We might integrate this script with boot-floppies but there is currently
> not much in common. S/390 machines only have a 3270 console which does
> not support ncurses or slang, so the whole boot-floppies GUI will not
> work there. Also, there's no need to configure the keyboard and no
> support for DASD (disk) partitions.
> I have commited some patches to the boot-floppies CVS but this is not
> working yet. One possible solution might be to set up networking using
> our script and then start telnetd or sshd so the second part of the
> installation can be done remotely using dbootstrap.
I suggest writing a openbsd-like installer. This would make the install
independant of an other unix-system. The current installer will never
work on 3270.
> + The installation script has been successfully tested on 5 different
> systems, both under VM and in an LPAR.
>
> Summary: We'd like to release s390 with woody and think this is a doable
> goal. We'll see how well the installation with boot-floppies works -- if it
> does not, we'll package our script instead.
Woody for s390 would be really great. Because the stuff is getting
really stable now, and it will be a very long time untill sid will be
released. Perhaps 3 years from now on.
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