Re: Architecture conversion instructions (s390 -> s390x)

2012-08-11 Thread The Fungi
Also, if you have the time to read through the "amd64 as default architecture" thread on debian-devel from May, skim the subthread starting around this message from Ben Hutchings: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/05/msg00971.html -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org

Re: Architecture conversion instructions (s390 -> s390x)

2012-08-11 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-08-11 14:48:47 + (+), The Fungi wrote: [...] > Guillem Jover's dpkg notes to DDA back in March [...] I guess a URL would have been helpful: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg5.html -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.or

Re: Architecture conversion instructions (s390 -> s390x)

2012-08-11 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-08-11 15:43:12 +0200 (+0200), Bastian Blank wrote: > Upgrading between architectures is not supported in Wheezy. > However this is nothing special. Go ask on debian-devel. Specifically, what you're asking about is multi-arch cross-grading. See the last section of Guillem Jover's dpkg notes

Re: Squeeze install successful, now a NIC / OSA / eth0 problem

2012-04-12 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-04-12 20:24:34 -0600 (-0600), The VM Wizard wrote: [...] > why is "eth0" being renamed at every IPL ? which causes the > apparent startup of "eth0" to fail a few lines later ? [...] Sounds like the MAC of your interface might be different at every boot, and so the udev startup thinks it's

Re: cross compiling a linux application for zlinux using debian

2009-12-22 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:18:57AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I have never used ar directly. It may have been invoked "under > the covers" from a script that I have run, but I've never invoked > it directly from the command line. [...] DEBs are packed using GNU ar, so this is quite possibly w

Re: Minidisk support

2009-12-15 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:22:48AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Not being a registered Suse or Red Hat customer, I don't know if I > would have access to these backported fixes. [...] The Linux kernel is licensed under the GPL, so anyone who distributes modified binaries is also obligated to mak

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:39:10PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: > A Multiprise H50 or H70 would fit your needs, maybeit's about > that size, probably pretty cheap on the used market, could run > z/VM 4.4. It is, however, 31-bit only. There is nothing at all > 64-bit yet that fits the bill. Ho

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread The Fungi
I've been meaning to set up a used representative for testing in my lab at home, and would appreciate suggestions on some of the "smaller" options (from a space and power/thermal perspective). I've worked with a larger S/390 sysplex in the past (unfortunately not running Linux natively), but am cur