Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual page 16

Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
i cms
If necessary, add the device containing z/VM's TCP/IP tools to your CMS disk list. For example:
vmlink tcpmaint 592 592
If using any of the qdio/qeth based network connection types (such as OSA express or
hipersockets), set the VM guest qioassist parameter off:
set qioassist off
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
kernel.img
•
cd /location/of/boot/images/
•
locsite fix 80
•
bin
•
get kernel.img (repl
•
get initrd.img (repl
•
ascii
•
get redhat.parm (repl
•
quit
You may now create the parameter file (for example,
Sample Parameter Files
There is a limit of 32 total parameters in the parameter file. In order to accommodate limitations
with parameter files, a new configuration file on a CMS DASD should be used to configure the
initial network setup and the DASD specification.
A file is still required for the real kernel parameters, such as
.parm
ramdisk_size=40000
Two new parameters which point the installation program at the new configuration file need to
be added to the
.parm
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and
initrd.img
for sample files. Below is an explanation of the
parm
, and single parameters which are not assigned to variables, such as
file:
(repl
image files):
). Refer to
redhat.parm
root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off
and
kernel.img
option if you are
Appendix B,
file contents.
parm
.
vnc