Stephen Powell <zlinuxman <at> wowway.com> writes:
Hello S31.) It will no doubt > take the Debian s390 port some time to recover from his loss. > > Since Debian is an all-volunteer organization, and sincete we have > no corporate sponsorship from IBM for system z, IBM System z servers are > hard to come by for the Debian project. (Not too many private individuals > have a 64-bit mainframe in their basements.) Frans himself used > the Hercules emulator running under Linux on an Intel box, I believe, > to do his work, and I suspect (but do not know for certain) that > the production build servers do as well. Frans was doing the > daily builds of the squeeze Debian installer for the s390 platform > himself, the last I knew. I just tried the link myself: > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/s390/images/daily/ and got a > "404 - not found" error; so we have no e builds. That > issue needs to be addressed. > > I have access to a real IBM mainframe owned by my employer, and I > can sometimes test things for Debian, if it is in my employer's > interests to do so; but I am not in a position to offer a "porter > box" to Debian. It doesn't belong to me. I run Debian for s390 > in a virtual machine under z/VM; so if there's anything VM-specific > that needs tested, I might be able to help. > Hello Stephen I want to install Debian on Mainframe z10 EC, I was successfully booted it through DVD but the problem is that it is not detecting any of the OSAs. And while installing SUSE I didn't face any problem. Please guide me how to install it on LPAR. Regards Shahanawaz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
