Re: Debian version for zSeries

2010-11-24 Thread Thorsten Diehl
Hello, z/VM 5.3 is in fact the earliest supported Version on system z10, but I'd better say: It was! z/VM 5.3 is out of service since 09/30/2010. http://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm530/ http://www.vm.ibm.com/techinfo/lpmigr/VMLEOS.HTML It is highly recommended to upgrade to Version 5.4 with a recent RSU

Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Phil Knirsch
Hi everyone. As the subject says, we're closing in on the final official Fedora 14 release for System Z. All know issues have by now been fixed and we're now looking for a final round of testing. In case you want to give us a hand in testing you can find more details about how to help on

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Philip L Pinto
Philipp, It's been on my list - I will try to get to this over the next several days - or over the weekend -thanks Phil Pinto -Original Message- From: s390x-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:s390x-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Phil Knirsch Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
I'll give a go at installing F14 on a mainframe this weekend. Is there anything in particular to test, or just the base install? -- Pat On 11/24/10 4:31 PM, Philip L Pinto wrote: Philipp, It's been on my list - I will try to get to this over the next several days - or over the weekend

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 8:00 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: I'll give a go at installing F14 on a mainframe this weekend. Is there anything in particular to test, or just the base install? -- Pat Alright, I haven't finished the install yet, it's still running, but let me just say that the initial install

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it appears to be doing things but I never get anything on the console. I assume it can write to a dumb terminal or at least a virtual HMC.

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
I take that back. I'm tracing the SVCs and am seeing attempted writes to the console (SVC 04 with fd = 2 == stderr) and the text appears to be: cannot read proc file system - 9 bad file descriptor. In fact, all the writes have references to bad file descriptors in there. I'm not sure what I've

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 9:30 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it appears to be doing things but I never get anything on the console. I assume it can write to

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 10:51 PM, Patrick Spinler spinler.patr...@mayo.edu wrote: I can send you my exec, parm file, and directory entry if you'd like. On 11/24/10 9:51 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Please Here you go, just pasted inline here: fdr1zl01 direct: USER FDR1ZL01 512M 512M G

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 9:51 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: On 11/24/10 9:30 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Anyone got it to run in a virtual machine? I downloaded the img files and used a variation of the REDHAT EXEC to punch them to the virtual reader. I IPL it appears to be doing things but I never get

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 10:07 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: Thanks, in my parm file I had a cio_ignore parameter. When I got rid of that, I started getting messages. (apologies for forwarding this to the list, also, but I think it may be of general interest) Makes sense. The fedora hercules readme talks

Re: Fedora 14 for System Z needs testers!

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 11/24/10 10:14 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: Now, I just gotta start compiling some source rpms Okay, now this is annoying, apparently there's not even a compiler package available in the fedora spin ... Is my next option to try to compile gcc as a cross compiler, then compile itself for the