September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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194 Linux for IBM ^ zSeries and S/390: Distributions
13.1 History and overview of the Marist File System
The Marist File System was the first Linux system that was available for
download. Created by the IBM Linux for S/390 developers, it was made available
on the Marist College Linux FTP server on January 5, 2000. There were two
versions, a small file system and a big file system. Both versions would allow you
to bring up a basic Linux system, but the “big” file system had enough packages
to compile and install new software.
This was not a “distribution” in the usual sense of the word, in that it was simply a
tarred and gzipped copy of a running Linux system. Installing it consisted of
un-gzipping and un-tarring the file onto the DASD where ...
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