Thanks for your quick reply; we got the files from the Debian mirror: carroll.aset.psu.edu in /pub/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic
Jean-Claude Durand. Le 30 avr. 2011 à 11:11, Philipp Kern a écrit : > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:39:15PM +0700, Christian Boitet wrote: >> Actually, as ftp on this VM did not work, we did the operation on >> another VM and copied (using COPYFILE) the 4 files obtained to the >> VM (LINUX7 in our installation) on which we want to install >> Debian/Lenny, and on which we did the necessary transformation of >> DEBIAN EXEC and PARMFILE DEBIAN. > > Where did you get the files from? Double-checking as you didn't state it and > Stephen's talking about newer locations with s390x-only kernels. > > FWIW the current dailys are at [0] but this won't help you because they're > s390x-only. > >> We followed exactly the instructions indicated in the Debian >> installation documentation. I copy them below, with a few comments. >> >> We had to convert the PARMFILE DEBIAN back from ebcdic into ascii F >> 80, I did it under Xedit and checked the correctness by visulizing >> the Hex form, it was OK, including for the EOL character (X'2A'). > > As far as I know Linux can cope with the PARMFILE being in EBCDIC. I had no > trouble editing the preseed information in it verbatim in XEDIT, at least. > 5.1.2 on [1] confirms this. > > Kind regards, > Philipp Kern > > [0] http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/s390/daily/ > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/s390/ch05s01.html.en > -- > .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer > : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager > `. `' xmpp:[email protected] Wanna-Build Admin > `- finger pkern/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
