Hi Phil Many thanks for the new image - can I offer a suggestion - to help out us old mainframers who have trouble coming to grips with the likes of vi - could you pls include the package Midnight Commander.
My first actions with a new image are to 'customise' it - then load Midnight Commander so I can 'get around' and tweak for my local machine. This can be a bit tricky if the networking in the image doesn't match the network I am on. Keep up the great work Bern -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Knirsch Sent: Friday, 17 July 2009 11:09 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available Hi folks. Just a quick heads up, i've updated the hercules image for Fedora 11 the last few days and uploaded it yesterday. I've done the following changes: - Update to latest and greatest packages (newest kernel etc) - Dropped all the mkinitrd hacks, works without them now! - Added development-libs and development-tools to the installation - Minor fixes and changes to the hercules.cnf file - Updated documentation - Switched the image from a compressed dasd to an uncompressed one The last point affects performance drastically as the limiting factor was mainly the CPU, and compressing and uncompressing each and every block every time it's read or written to a DASD really ate a lot of that away. Bootup is now noticeably faster as is compiling or any other disk related work. The side effect of this all though is that you will now need around 9GB disk space available for the uncompressed DASD image. Fortunately compressed it's only 640MB at the moment, so marginally bigger than the old one. As usual the docu, config files and images can be found here: http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ Have fun! Thanks & regards, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Team Lead Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknir...@redhat.com> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390