Re: Linux on Hercules on windows.

"Ivan Warren [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:43:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/24/2020 6:24 PM, Alexandre Bencz [email protected] [hercules-390] 
wrote:
>
>
> Jerry!
> I use this image: 
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/release/ubuntu-18.04.2-server-s390x.iso
>
> Thanks
>
> Alexandre S. Bencz
> +55 {15} 991-707-384
> On 24/01/2020 14:22, Jerry Helms [email protected] 
> [hercules-390] wrote:
>>
>> I have Hercules running on Windows 10 and attempting to install a 
>> Linux image. Can anyone advise getting a linux image setup
>>
>> to IPL.
>>
>
As indicated by Alexandre, you can use one of the various s390x 
distributions (ubuntu, debian, etc..). Mount the ISO and IPL the .ins file.
One of the trick is setting up networking so that you can access the 
installation packages to be installed on your DASDs
Other things to be aware of are that
- Sometimes the builders forget to properly regenerate the .ins file, in 
which case you'll have to hand rig a OMA tape which contains the kernel, 
the parmfile and the installation initrd
- I had issues with Debian 10 installation initrd failing to detect 
networking at IPL.. So just used a Debian 9 install, installed 
everything then updated my APT source and did a apt-get update && 
apt-get dist-upgrade

HTH,

--Ivan



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