Fwd: Installation report for Debian on S/390
Hi,
attached is the installation report I posted on Saturday to debian-testing.
It would probably help if somebody could confirm the report on debian-testing
now and as soon as we have packaged and uploaded the files along with an
installation script. The files can be downloaded from
http://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/s390-ibm-linux/debian-s390/
The kernel image package contains currently a kernel not compatible with the
OCO modules. As long as this is not fixed, you can copy the kernel and
modules from the ramdisk to your root file system. The modutils package is
missing some alias definitions in modules.conf. You may also copy the
modules.conf as workaround.
Regards
Gerhard
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Subject: Installation report for Debian on S/390
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:52:24 +0200
From: Gerhard Tonn <GerhardTonn@swol.de>
To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
This is the very first installation report for Debian on S/390. Since I am
currently the only one, who is not on vacation and I don't know exactly how
to package the installation utilities, the installation is based on the files
sid.initrd (ramdisk image)
sid.image-2.4.5 (kernel image)
sid.parmfile (parameters passed to the kernel)
found at http://source.rfc822.org.
As soon as we will have uploaded the utilities, we will write the next
report. All manual steps will be covered by a script in the next version of
the installation utilities.
The installation has been run in a virtual machine from a virtual (card)
reader.
First of all I downloaded the 3 files and added non-free network modules from
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/download_obj.h
tml
to the ramdisk. Then I adapted the parmfile by adding the address of the disk
Debian was to be installed on. After the files had been put into the virtual
reader, the boot process was started by
ipl 00c clear
..
After the successful boot, the network modules were loaded by insmod. The
network setup was done by ifconfig and route. These steps were executed on
the console.
insmod qdio
insmod qeth qeth0,0xPPPP,0xPPPP,0xPPPP
ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
After the successful network setup, the change of the root password and the
creation of a non-root user, a telnet session with a non-root user was
started. By switching to root the installation process was continued.
I added then the search domain and nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf.
The next commands are:
dasdfmt -b 4096 -f /dev/dasd/yyyy/device
to format the disk.
fdasd /dev/dasd/yyyy/device
to create a partition.
mke2fs /dev/dasd/yyyy/part1
to make a filesystem.
Then I mounted it by
mount /dev/dasd/yyyy/part1 /mnt
In order to enable proxy settings I edited /etc/wgetrc.
and then issued
debootstrap sid /mnt http://source.rfc822.org/debian
which ended successfully.
The next steps were:
copy /etc/inittab to /mnt/etc/inittab
chroot /mnt
change root password
add a non-root user
edit /etc/network/interfaces
edit /etc/hostname
add search domain and nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf
edit fstab
adjust /etc/apt/sources.list
install kernel-image
install ssh
edit /boot/parmfile
zipl -t /boot -i /boot/image-2.4.5 -p /boot/parmfile
which is the bootloader on S/390.
Finally I issued
halt
ipl xxx clear
using the disk address as xxx.
After the successful boot, I could login with ssh and install additional
packages.
Regards,
Gerhard
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