Installing Under Vm - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual

4

1.5. Installing under VM

Log onto the VM as the Linux guest account. You can use x3270 or c3270 (from the x3270-text pack-
age in Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to log in to the VM from other Linux systems. Alternatively, use the
OS/2 3270 terminal emulator on the S/390 management console. If you are working from a Windows
based machine, Jolly Giant (http://www.jollygiant.com/) offers an SSL enabled 3270 emulator.
If you are not in CMS mode, enter it now.
i cms
If necessary, add the device containing the VM's TCP/IP tools to your CMS disk list. For example:
vmlink tcpmaint 592
FTP to the machine containing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot images (
), log in, and execute the following commands (use the
initrd.img
overwriting existing
• cd /location/of/boot/images/
• locsite fix 80
•
bin
• get kernel.img (repl
• get initrd.img (repl
• quit
You may now create the parameter file (for example,
Parameter Files for sample
Important
Follow these guidelines when creating a parameter file.
The parameter file should contain no more than 80 characters per line.
•
The VM reader has a limit of 11 lines for the parameter file (for a total of 880 characters).
•
The DASD and the tape IPL have limits of 896 characters.
•
The following parameters are required and must be included in the parameter file:
• DASD= dasd-list
¦
Where
dasd-list
¦
Although autoprobing for DASDs is done if this parameter is omitted, it is highly recommended
to include the
DASD=
when a new DASD is added to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest. This can result in an unusable
system.
• root= file-system
¦
where
file-system
¦
installation purposes, it should be set to
Enterprise Linux installation program.
The following parameters are required to set up networking:
and
kernel.img initrd.img
files. Below is an explanation of the
parm
§
represents the list of DASD devices to be used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
§
parameter, as the device numbers (and therefore the device names) can vary
§
represents the device on which the root file system can be found. For
§
Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
image files):
redhat.parm
, which is the ramdisk containing the Red Hat
/dev/ram0
kernel.img
option if you are
(repl
). Refer to Appendix B Sample
file contents.
parm
and