On 5 Aug 2012, at 21:56, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:01:31 -0400 (EDT), Sampsa Laine wrote: >> >> Does anyone have any practical examples of this? I don't want >> to bugger up my system (am of course backuping the DASD's >> before any install step :) > > I know it's long, but I recommend that you read the entire web > page before starting. There's a lot of material there, and many > "gotchas" are documented. If you read the web page first, you > will avoid most of the common "gotchas". If you are talking > specifically about the hook scripts, what I use is the lynx > browser (text mode only) to do the download. Bring up the web > page in lynx under Debian for s390. Position to the first > download link, then press "d" to download. Exit the browser, > become root, move (mv) the file to /etc/kernel/postinst.d, change > the group to root (chgrp), the owner to root (chown), and the > attributes to 755 (chmod). Revert back to your non-root userid > again, run lynx, position to the second download link, type "d" > to download, exit lynx again, become root, move the second file to > /etc/kernel/postrm.d, and change the group, owner, and attributes > as before. Then edit /etc/kernel-img.conf and change do_symlinks > to no. >
I copied the two scripts into the /etc/kernel dirs. > There are examples in the web page itself, but they are for the > i386 architecture. Slight changes will need to be made in the > kernel naming convention for s390 kernels, but other than that > the examples in the web page itself should suffice. > > After reading the entire web page, if you still have specific > questions, ask away. Am in the progress of re-reading it for the third time now, I think I've got most of it. I also looked in the /etc/kernel/post* dirs, I take it the dpkg command will invoke zipl to add the relevant entries to the boot loader? Sampsa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
