[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(a)HOTMAIL.COM&gt;
Reply-To: 	Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390(a)VM.MARIST.EDU&gt;
To: 	LINUX-390(a)VM.MARIST.EDU
References: 	<4A6077D1.6010401(a)redhat.com&gt;



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:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Phil
Knirsch
Sent: Friday, 17 July 2009 11:09 PM
To: LINUX-390(a)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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[Phil Knirsch]

On 07/21/2009 12:09 PM, Harold Grovesteen wrote:
>  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
>  
Hi Harold.

As already posted on the marist list, i'll add that as it's really a 
small and very useful tool that i remember now many people on IBM 
mainframes use as it's similar to the x3270 consoles.

Regarding an ftp server, what are you referring here too? For the images 
we only have the secondary arch spins hosting site at the moment which 
doesn't have FTP access afaik. For the packages themselves we have our 
normal fedora repositories along with mirrors, some of which will have 
FTP access.

The idea of releasing a list of installed packages though is really 
good, i'll do that for the next release and will post the current one to 
the thread on Marist list.

Thanks & regards, Phil

-- 
Philipp Knirsch              | Tel.:  [phone]
Team Lead Core Services      | Fax.:  [phone]
Red Hat GmbH                 | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com&gt;
Hauptstaetterstr. 58         | Web:   http://www.redhat.com/
D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany
Motd:  You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.

[Harold Grovesteen]

Phil Knirsch wrote:

> On 07/21/2009 12:09 PM, Harold Grovesteen wrote:
>   
>
> >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
> >
> >    
> >
>
> Hi Harold.
>
> As already posted on the marist list, i'll add that as it's really a 
> small and very useful tool that i remember now many people on IBM 
> mainframes use as it's similar to the x3270 consoles.
>
> Regarding an ftp server, what are you referring here too? For the images 
> we only have the secondary arch spins hosting site at the moment which 
> doesn't have FTP access afaik. For the packages themselves we have our 
> normal fedora repositories along with mirrors, some of which will have 
> FTP access.
>
> The idea of releasing a list of installed packages though is really 
> good, i'll do that for the next release and will post the current one to 
> the thread on Marist list.
>  
This would have answered my question. What I was asking is if a FTP 
server was already installed on the Fedora 11 image or not that would 
allow Fedora 11 to be a FTP server as opposed to an FTP client. I am 
assuming it has a client installed. Maybe not. Anyway, this list would 
easily answer such questions. Thanks.

> Thanks & regards, Phil
>
>   
>