On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:05:11AM +0200, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Florian La Roche wrote: > > > Send me patches, if I should put these changes into the next version. > > There is a subtle difference between repair and fix, I think. I know > enough of vi to change tests for 'eth' into 'tr' but my bash skills > are not good enough to code it such that it works in both cases. If you still have problems with networking, please tell us the commands to set this up and we can try to add this to the startup scripts. I think qdio/qdeth are still missing at the moment. > There were a bunch of cases where the mount explicitly had '-t nfs' > and I believe it would be good enough to take that out and allow for > both. Ok. > > My impression was that you're still going to do something about the > installer and that I were to dig into this nfsroot stuff it would just > be a waste of time. If you say this is as good as it will get then I > would need to look at it differently. > Would it be an acceptable option to require a RedHat Linux PC for > the install on S/390? You could then use the installer on the PC to do > a kind of remote install where you mainly have a helper application on > S/390 during install. We should at least allow ftp/http installs as NFS is too complicated to setup. cu, Florian La Roche
