Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual page 30

3 Quick Start Guide
provides several POS images, which will be installed during the AS installa-
tion. POS images are the software that is run on the POS clients. These should
not be confused with the boot image and operating system image each POS
client needs to receive after it is powered on.
Expert: The POS clients boot two images — a first and a second stage image.
Refer to Section 15.6.3
Note: The POS images that should be run on the POS clients are placed in
the rsync directory manually to give control over the POS image types and
versions distributed to the branch servers.
The following POS images are available. For further information, refer to
Section 15.2 on page 142.
– Boot Image
– Minimal Image
– Java Image
– Browser Image
– Desktop Image
Interaction
The example below uses the disknet
nel) and a java POS image for all POS client systems. The image names contain
a version number and a date for revision management. The file names should
be changed according to the expected naming convention, as shown in the
example. For further information, refer to Section
Note: You may have to adapt the version and date of the file names to
execute the example below. SLRS POS image versions subject to change
without notice. Please verify the names of the prebuild images, which you
have installed from the SLRS CD1. The location of the prebuild images is
/opt/SLES/POS/image.
Copy the initial RAM Disk:
cp /opt/SLES/POS/image/initrd-disknetboot-1.1.7-2003-12-12.gz \
/opt/SLES/POS/rsync/boot/initrd.gz
Copy the Linux kernel:
cp /opt/SLES/POS/image/initrd-disknetboot-1.1.7-2003-12-12.kernel.2.4.21-151-POS_IBM \
/opt/SLES/POS/rsync/boot/linux
Copy the Java POS Image:
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SLRS provides three different prebuild boot images, the netboot, disknetboot and cdboot
image. For further information refer to Chapter
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on page 151 for further information.
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boot image (initrd including Linux ker-
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15.4 on page 143.
on page 141.