Starting Novstart For The First Time; Updating Profile Exec On Novstart 191; Detaching All Novstart Minidisks; Pinging The Novstart Starter System From Z/Vm - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER STARTER SYSTEM Installation Manual

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/* PROFILE EXEC for NOVSTART SLES Installation server */
'CP SET PF12 RETRIEVE'
'CP SPOOL CON TO MAINT'
'CP SPOOL CON START'
'ACCESS 19F D'
'SWAPGEN 160 200000'
/* Update the following variables to reflect the owner of the
/* guest LAN or VSWITCH you are using, and the name of the LAN
/* or switch.
owner = 'SYSTEM'
lan_name = 'GLAN1'
Figure 32. Updating PROFILE EXEC on NOVSTART 191
10. Type FILE to save your changes and exit XEDIT.
11. Detach all NOVSTART minidisks and log off the z/VM userid.
DETACH F191
DETACH F150
DETACH F151
DETACH F19F
Figure 33. Detaching All NOVSTART Minidisks

Starting NOVSTART for the First Time

From OPERATOR or another privileged userid, type AUTOLOG NOVSTART. After a minute
or so, you should be able to ping the IP address of your server from another workstation
or the z/VM TCPIP stack.
ping novstart.example.com
Ping Level 520: Pinging host NOVSTART.EXAMPLE.COM (10.0.0.2). Enter
PING: Ping #1 response took 0.001 seconds. Successes so far 1.
PING: Ping #2 response took 0.001 seconds. Successes so far 2.
Figure 34. Pinging the NOVSTART Starter System From z/VM
You can also log in directly to the VM system as NOVSTART and watch the startup
process on the virtual machine console directly. If you do this, you will notice the virtual
machine boot Linux, reconfigure the network, and then reboot automatically. This is
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8. Modify the values by moving the cursor to the text and typing over the values for
owner and lan_name. Ensure the values are enclosed in single quotes (').
9. Press Enter to move the cursor to the XEDIT command line.
Configuration is now complete.
#CP EXT to interrupt.
*/
*/
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