Additional S/390 Hardware Preparation For Installation Notes; Basic Overview Of The Boot Method; Common Steps Needed For Installing Red Hat Linux To A Vm Or Lpar - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 - S-390 Manual

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Section 1.4:Common Steps Needed for Installing Red Hat Linux to a VM or LPAR

1.2 Additional S/390 Hardware Preparation for

Installation Notes

The network configuration must be determined beforehand. Red Hat Linux for S/390 supports

CTC/Escon and IUCV network device configurations. For the purposes of this installation, it is

recommended that two 2 GB DASD partitions be allocated for the installation process. All DASD

disk allocations should be completed prior to the install process. After the installation, more DASD

disk partitions may be added or deleted as necessary.

For installation you must start a kernel (with the Linux kernel), an initrd.img for VM installa-

tions or a tapeinrd.img for LPAR installation (with some basic network applications and kernel

drivers), and a parameter file with some information about your network configuration. Once this

is started on the S/390, the networking will be configured. You can then use telnet or ssh on another

computer to log into your S/390 Linux install image and start an installation script to install S/390

Linux onto your file system.

1.4 Common Steps Needed for Installing Red Hat

Linux to a VM or LPAR

The Red Hat Linux for S/390 media must be available for either a network installation (via NFS, FTP

or HTTP) or installation via local hard disk (DASD). The following steps, common to both VM and

LPAR installations, prepare for the chosen method of installation.

Network Installation

The NFS, FTP or HTTP server to be used for installation over the network must be a seperate

machine which can provide the complete RedHat tree — this machine is referred to as RPM-

SERVER. Both the RedHat/base/ and RedHat/RPMS/ directories must be available and

populated with all files from the two installation CD-ROMs.

The directory specified in the following refers to /loca-

tion/of/disk/space .

to, but NOT including, the RedHat distribution directory.

example, if you have a Red Hat Linux 7.2 CD-ROM mounted

on /mnt/cdrom, /location/of/disk/space would be

/mnt/cdrom.

Note

This means it is the directory up

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