Re: S/390 install cd image?
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>Gerhard Tonn declared on Friday 08 July 2005 12:27 am:
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>>Patrick Finnegan wrote:
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>>>Is there a CD install image for debian s/390? I just acquired a G5
>>>S/390 which I want to get Debian up and running on, and since I
>>>don't have any other OS or tape devices on it, it'd be easiest to
>>>install using the SE laptop CD drive, which I've heard is possible
>>>with SuSE and RedHat's S/390 distributions.
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>>>Any towards doing this would be appreciated, even if it's just
>>>instructions on how to build my own bootable S/390 CD. :)
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>>See http://www.debian.org/CD/ for details. jigdo should work fine.
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>I can pretty much guaranteed that won't work on S/390, which would
>explain the lack of offical netinst and business card ISOs for S/390.
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>I'm not stupid. :)
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Well normally I would log onto the HMC as SYSPROG, select the LPAR, then
double-click on Load from CD-ROM.
You may be able to find more detailed information in the RHEL
installation guide for s/390 - look under documentation on RH website.
Would of course be nice if the Debian manual had the details, perhaps
you can feed your experiences back to the documentation developers?
-goc-
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