Install the MVS Turnkey 5 System

Locally on your PC.

This will document installing MVS Turnkey 5 on a PC running Debian.

The instructions should work on other systems with minor modifications. See the MVS-TK5 Website for more information.

This is a good place to start:

  • You can run the system with or without the console
  • Set it up to run all the time or only when you want/need
  • Play around with the system
  • You can add or delete or rename stuff to learn how it works
  • If you mess it up, it’s easier to just delete it and start over from scratch

Download the zip file.

wget https://www.prince-webdesign.nl/images/downloads/mvs-tk5.zip

Unzip and set it up.

cd to go to the user HOME directory.

unzip <mvs-tk5.zip> from where it was downloaded to.

cd mvs-tk5

Within the mvs-tk5 directory, run these:

chmod 744 mvs

Use uname -m to determine the OS you are using. For Debian; it is x86-64.

cd hercules/linux/64/bin

chmod 744 *

Set Mode

CD back to the ~/mvs-tk5 directory and run:

cd unattended/

If you are just starting out and want to see the MVS Console running:

bash set_console_mode

If you don’t want the console to run and just want the system up:

bash set_daemon_mode

Run it!

CD back to the ~/mvs-tk5 directory and run:

./mvs