[Fwd: Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available]

[Harold Grovesteen]

Thought I would forward this request to this list.  I am with this 
poster.  It would be great to have something better than vi.  I just 
completed installing the latest released disk and am about to add a new 
disk for /home.

Is there an FTP server installed?  Better yet, is there a place that has 
a list of the installed packages?

Harold Grovesteen

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available
Date: 	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:12:47 +1000
From: 	Bernie Saward <bernie_saward at HOTMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: 	Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390 at VM.MARIST.EDU>
To: 	LINUX-390 at VM.MARIST.EDU
References: 	<4A6077D1.6010401 at redhat.com>



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-390 at VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil
Knirsch
Sent: Friday, 17 July 2009 11:09 PM
To: LINUX-390 at 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

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