It took me about 4 hours to get SUSE L/390 up and running under WINXP
PRO:

- The first thing I did was go through the archives of this newsgroup
and read up on other experiences
- The next thing I did was burn the 3 ISO images
- I then set my CDROM drive to be shared over the network
- Modified the AWSOMA.TDF file so that it looks like this:

@TDF
/tapes/TAPEIPL.IKR FIXED RECSIZE 1024
/tapes/PARMFILE FIXED RECSIZE 1024
/tapes/INITRD FIXED RECSIZE 1024
TM
TM
EOT

- Started up the HERCGUI (nice one Fish) and I already had the
CTCI-WIN32 installed and knew it worked
- Created 4 3390 disks through the GUI
- Created a new config file which looks like this:

CPUSERIAL 000611
CPUMODEL 3090
MAINSIZE 128
CNSLPORT 3270
NUMCPU 1
NUMVEC 1
ARCHMODE ESA/390
SYSEPOCH 1900
TZOFFSET -0500
OSTAILOR LINUX
PANRATE 50
PGMPRDOS LICENSED
IODELAY 800
# DASD Devices
0100 3390 F:/dasd2/SWP001
0101 3390 F:/dasd2/LIN101
0201 3390 F:/dasd2/LIN201
0301 3390 F:/dasd2/LIN301
# TAPE Devices
0580 3420 C:/tapes/awsoma.tdf
# CTC Adapters
0E20 3088 CTCI-W32 192.168.0.4 00-A0-CC-3C-78-FA
0E21 3088 CTCI-W32 192.168.0.4 00-A0-CC-3C-78-FA

- IPL-ed 580 and up it came
- Replied to all messages using the prefix . (thats a fullstop BTW)
- Used various different Telnet clients (Hyperterm worked perfectly
fine) to run YAST and mounted my CDROM as SMB
- Installed the basic setup that it suggests and off and away for a few
coffees
- IPL'ed from 0101 and there I had it - L/390

On another PC I have installed under WINXP HOME, the whole Cygwin system
along with XFREE86 and use that to log into my L/390 (still trying to
get KDE2 to work though.) DB2 installed nice and easy but having a few
problems with Websphere.

When you download the ISO images from SUSE there should be a couple of
PDF documents, l390ga1 and l390gp, everything you need is basically
there.