Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual page 61

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With NFS
Refer to the documentation provided with the third party product that enables NFS
server services for your Windows workstation. The DVD-ROM drive containing the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server DVDs must be in the available NFS path.
With FTP
Refer to the documentation provided with the third party product that is enabling FTP
server services on your Windows workstation. The DVD-ROM drive containing the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server DVDs must be in the available FTP path.
The FTP server that is part of some Microsoft Windows releases implements only a
subset of the FTP command set and is not suitable for providing the installation data.
However, other products, such as the FTP server that is part of Hummingbird Exceed
or WAR-FTPD, have been reported as functional.
Using an FCP-Attached SCSI DVD Drive
After you IPLed from the SCSI DVD as described in
Section "Load from SCSI-Attached
DVD"
(page 45), the installation system use the DVD as the installation medium. In
that case, you do not need the installation media on an FTP, NFS, or SMB server.
However, you need the network configuration data for your SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server, because you must set up the network during the installation to perform a
graphical installation by VNC or by X tunneled through SSH.
4.2.2 Installation Types
This section provides information about which steps must be performed to install SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server for each of the installation modes and where to find the appro-
priate information. After the preparations mentioned in the previous chapters have been
accomplished, follow the installation overview of the desired installation mode to install
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on your system.
As described in
Section 4.2.1, "Making the Installation Data Available"
(page 46),
there are two different installation modes for Linux on IBM System z:
• LPAR Installation
Installation on IBM System z
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