Upgrading to Hercules 3.06 on Windows XP

[vk2kad]

Hi all

The last time I installed Hercules 3.06 I lost my IP connectivity - not sure why but I was no longer able to connect to my Hercules Guests.


So - I have just re-installed Hercules 3.05 as per the Brian Westerman instructions and I can now communicate via IP with my zDebian guest again - yahoo....

So my next exercise was to bring up the new Fedora11 which is distributed as a Hercules disk image - I have already got this up and running under a Fedora Hercules so I wanted to try and get it going under a Windows Hercules - now that my 3.05 system is behaving I fired it up - alas I have a problem - when I IPL Fedora's 122 disk I get this error


HHCCP007I CPU0000 architecture mode set to z/Arch
Error starting thread in diagnose 0x308: Invalid argument


When I had this error on my Fedora Hercules I upgraded to 3.06 and all was rosy.

So my dilemma is - do I upgrade my Windows Hercules to 3.06 and end up down the some rabbit hole I went into previously.

It would be comforting if I could have a backout strategy - so if someone can tell me if my plan will work.


Is it just as simple as making a copy of my "Hercules" directory which is currently c:\hercules\ and installing 3.06 over the top of 3.05 - will my backout be as simple as just restoring the "hercules" directory or does other stuff get sqirrelled away in other places????

If only it was simpler  ;)

Cheers and thanks in advance for any offerings

Bern - VK2KAD

[brian_westerman]

Hi Bern,

The 3.06 problem is some missing files.  If you make a copy of your 3.05 directories and install 3.06 over top of them, you will be okay.  I think I sent an email to the group and outlined which files were missing, but I can't remember right now.  I'll check on that and send one if I didn't previously, but I wanted you to be able to move forward without the wait.

If you run into any problems, please let me know and I'll help you through them.  If you install to an alternate directory, just compare them and the missing modules are easy to find.  Just copy them over.

If you find the module names before I get them, plese post them here so that others can find them easier.

Brian Westerman



--- In hercules-390@..., "vk2kad" <vk2kad@...> wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> The last time I installed Hercules 3.06 I lost my IP connectivity - not sure why but I was no longer able to connect to my Hercules Guests.
>
>
> So - I have just re-installed Hercules 3.05 as per the Brian Westerman instructions and I can now communicate via IP with my zDebian guest again - yahoo....
>
> So my next exercise was to bring up the new Fedora11 which is distributed as a Hercules disk image - I have already got this up and running under a Fedora Hercules so I wanted to try and get it going under a Windows Hercules - now that my 3.05 system is behaving I fired it up - alas I have a problem - when I IPL Fedora's 122 disk I get this error
>
>
> HHCCP007I CPU0000 architecture mode set to z/Arch
> Error starting thread in diagnose 0x308: Invalid argument
>
>
> When I had this error on my Fedora Hercules I upgraded to 3.06 and all was rosy.
>
> So my dilemma is - do I upgrade my Windows Hercules to 3.06 and end up down the some rabbit hole I went into previously.
>
> It would be comforting if I could have a backout strategy - so if someone can tell me if my plan will work.
>
>
> Is it just as simple as making a copy of my "Hercules" directory which is currently c:\hercules\ and installing 3.06 over the top of 3.05 - will my backout be as simple as just restoring the "hercules" directory or does other stuff get sqirrelled away in other places????
>
> If only it was simpler  ;)
>
> Cheers and thanks in advance for any offerings
>
> Bern - VK2KAD
>