Step by step instruction to install and run the hercules z/Series emulator
with the Fedora images:

1) Just install the latest hercules if your host system is running Fedora 10 or newer using:

   yum install hercules

   Otherwise you'll need to rebuild the current SRPM on your system.

2) Copy the config files from http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ to /etc/hercules:

   mkdir -p /etc/hercules
   wget http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/hercules.cnf -P /etc/hercules
   wget http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/hercules.init -P /etc/hercules

3) Copy one of the images from http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ to /home/data

   mkdir -p /home/data
   wget http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/f11-s390x-20090716.img.bz2 -P /home/data
   cd /home/data
   bunzip f11-s390x-20090716.img.bz2

4) Make sure your firewall configuration is modified to work with the NAT setup we're doing in the
   hercules.init file. In case you don't have a firewall running on your system you will be
   perfectly fine.

5) Start up hercules with the startup script:

   cd /etc/hercules
   ./hercules.init

6) IPL (boot) the image you want to work with.

   ipl 0122

7) Wait till the system has finished booting.

8) Log in via ssh and have fun. Password for root is "fedora":

   ssh -X root@192.168.200.3