On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:55:23PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote: > + We might integrate this script with boot-floppies but there is currently > not much in common. S/390 machines only have a 3270 console which does > not support ncurses or slang, so the whole boot-floppies GUI will not > work there. Also, there's no need to configure the keyboard and no > support for DASD (disk) partitions. > I have commited some patches to the boot-floppies CVS but this is not > working yet. One possible solution might be to set up networking using > our script and then start telnetd or sshd so the second part of the > installation can be done remotely using dbootstrap.
I suggest writing a openbsd-like installer. This would make the install independant of an other unix-system. The current installer will never work on 3270. > + The installation script has been successfully tested on 5 different > systems, both under VM and in an LPAR. > > Summary: We'd like to release s390 with woody and think this is a doable > goal. We'll see how well the installation with boot-floppies works -- if it > does not, we'll package our script instead. Woody for s390 would be really great. Because the stuff is getting really stable now, and it will be a very long time untill sid will be released. Perhaps 3 years from now on.
