Prebuilt Images; Booting The Cash Registers - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

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– Value equals zero
The question for the alias will not appear (default).
– Value equals -1
The question for the alias name appears and the boot process sleeps
until the user enters something.
This feature only takes effect when creating boot images.
Image configured as a branch server (feature=branch_server). The in-
formation to do this is obtained from the LDAP system.
Generate own image tree (create). The creation of a new image tree is
done by cloning an existing standard image.

15.5.1 Prebuilt Images

The standard images and checksums are stored in their own directory named
image.
Package Structure The source of this project is bundled into RPM packages
for maintainance reasons. The structure of the packages is as follows:
POS_Image
This package contains a short description of the package structure of the
POS_Image subpackages.
POS_Image-Builder
This package contains everything needed to build and administer cash
register systems.
POS_Image- name
Every image description is contained in a single package for which the
name should be the name of the image description directory.
POS_Image- name -Binary
Every prebuilt image is contained in a single package for which the
name must be the same as the name used for the source package of
this image.

15.6 Booting the Cash Registers

The branch server (BS) provides a TFTP server directory structure. For a better
understanding of the CR client boot process described below, the following
information is necessary:
PXE Network Boot (Intel Preboot Execution Environment)
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