Re: Fedora 11 on Hercules

>Great and thanks.  I will get back to you with the error message on Monday
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>Behalf Of Harold Grovesteen
>Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 5:23 PM
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>Subject: Re: [hercules-390] Fedora 11 on Hercules
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>This link was posted on 19 Jun. I pulled the tarball down on either the
>19th or 20th. It could have been updated since then. There is also an
>email list I joined. Hasn't had much traffic, but at least one of the
>leads has made postings.
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>>What version of the Installation Files did you get? The one we have fails
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>>Subject: [hercules-390] Fedora 11 on Hercules
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>>I just want to share with everyone my personal experience with the
>>Fedora 11 disk image. This is a winner! Particularly if you already
>>run Linux as your Hercules host. If you run Windows for your Hercules
>>host, the networking may be a bit challenging.
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>>One of the tools I have wanted for some time has been a gcc compiler
>>that produces mainframe object on my desktop. I was surprised to find
>>that gcc is not already pre-installed on the disk image. However, 'yum
>>install gcc' worked out the box to download it and dependencies and
>>install them. This was very slick.
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>>There is way too much "voodoo and black magic" in cross-compiling gcc.
>>I never got that to succeed. In the past, getting Linux installed
>>seemed to be a real hurdle. Just look at some of the posts with links
>>that explain it. Not simple. With other priorities, I never took the
>>time to get past those. If you want a modern Linux on Hercules, this is
>>absolutely the simplest path to get there.
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>>Fedora on the mainframe is no doubt not primarily about Hercules. They
>>obviously are targeting the corporate users of mainframes. However, by
>>including this community in the sphere of their outreach allows us to
>>benefit as well. Novell never did this. openSUSE does not include the
>>mainframe at all. The only other distribution to directly include the
>>Hercules community was Debian many years ago. Even Centos that used
>>Hercules to develop its mainframe distribution, did not provide a
>>pre-installed image that I recall.
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>>The folks who developed the Hercules support deserve our thanks. I hope
>>we can show it by embracing their work and providing input back to their
>>effort. It is after all about community.
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>>Harold Grovesteen
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