Re: Cobbler anyone?
Got some time on your hands? Look at the etherboot[1] project; it has a PXE boot rom these days. Does Some things better than pxelinux. Interesting, but a fairly large task. Lots of Intel assembler, unfortunately. Still, useful as a source of design ideas. 1 It needs a driver for your nic, but I suspect that Linux drivers are readily adapted. I may have a solution for that if someone feels particularly inspired to work on this. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hello list, Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish It's a fish, a very ugly fish with nasty spines, which is very fine on the table. Dad claims to have carried razor blades to remove their spines, when he went fishing for them around Mill Point, South Perth in the 30s. fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ I wouldn't bother asking, but it seems they are looking at a port to s390x: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/SssThreeNinety Oh, that one. Shouldn't be too difficult, I think it's mostly written in python. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
David Boyes wrote: Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ Several of our university clients use it for Intel lab machines. Depends very heavily on DHCP and PXE, but it's pretty slick when you've got it set up and working. Having PXE support for s390 would be pretty slick, esp if the boot PROM image could be loaded from a NSS. Got some time on your hands? Look at the etherboot[1] project; it has a PXE boot rom these days. Does Some things better than pxelinux. Cal be booted from floppy too:-) Oh, so no floppy? I'm sure it could be booted from a USB disk or even a VM Minidisk:-) 1 It needs a driver for your nic, but I suspect that Linux drivers are readily adapted. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 16.07.2008 23:34:42: Having PXE support for s390 would be pretty slick, esp if the boot PROM image could be loaded from a NSS. This could be easily accomplished by using the CMS IPLer and a very stripped down Linux kernel and a port of the PXE loader code. It's basically TFTP plus some little stuff. If you went the Linux route, you could use the IPLer to put the NSS with the minikernel system into memory in one piece, do the normal PXE DHCP and tftp steps to put the kernel into a fixed location, and then crash the boot ROM image by jumping directly to the new kernel. plugTotally not related to PXE, but: a mini-Linux system that loads and starts other kernels via disk or network on s390 is what the System Loader approach [1] is all about. The required setup procedure is IMO somewhat.. ugly, but the basic concept could be useful in some environments. Not sure if this applies to cobbler though./plug [1] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/sysload.html -- Peter Oberparleiter Linux on System z Development IBM Deutschland Research Development GmbH -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
[1] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/sysload.html Interesting. If it implemented tftp, it'd be pretty much what would be needed. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Cobbler anyone?
Hello list, Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ I wouldn't bother asking, but it seems they are looking at a port to s390x: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/SssThreeNinety Just FYI... Mike MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael MacIsaac wrote: | Hello list, | | Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish | fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ | | I wouldn't bother asking, but it seems they are looking at a port to | s390x: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/SssThreeNinety | No, I haven't. I'm curious how it compares to / interacts with Redhat Satellite, though. When I was testing with satellite on distributed platforms I found it difficult to create working client upgrade channel operations, so I'm interested in possible alternatives. - -- Pat -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIfgHoNObCqA8uBswRApYdAJ4gYLcgfG06NXlvhn91Mdf0TrvyVwCeP6vl qGijn4IGVL0PmVtf6EieO4E= =tOyv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hello list, Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ I wouldn't bother asking, but it seems they are looking at a port to s390x: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/SssThreeNinety Just FYI... I don't see any plugin for the z/VM SMAPI ;-) mark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
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Re: Cobbler anyone?
Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ Several of our university clients use it for Intel lab machines. Depends very heavily on DHCP and PXE, but it's pretty slick when you've got it set up and working. Having PXE support for s390 would be pretty slick, esp if the boot PROM image could be loaded from a NSS. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
David Boyes wrote: Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the deep-dish fruit dessert with a thick top crust :)) This one: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ Several of our university clients use it for Intel lab machines. Depends very heavily on DHCP and PXE, but it's pretty slick when you've got it set up and working. Having PXE support for s390 would be pretty slick, esp if the boot PROM image could be loaded from a NSS. I'm new to cobbler, but over the last few weeks I've been working with the cobbler community to get it working on s390. Eventually cobbler will be integrated into Satellite, as well as the recently announced Spacewalk, the open source Satellite: http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ Cobbler has a lot of promise on s390. The immediate goal is to get reprovisioning working, and the ultimate goal is to get bare metal provisioning via PXE working. The current thought is to write a *very* simplified PXE client as a REXX exec run at startup. It presents you with a menu, then based on your choice, uses the z/VM FTP client to download the correct kernel/initrd from the (cobbler) server. It's still in the development stages, so feel free to hit me with ideas and feedback (good or bad of course). Also, a couple of links: Mailing list: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler IRC: irc.freenode.net, #cobbler -Brad -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Brad Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z Red Hat, Inc. (919) 754-4198 www.redhat.com/z -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
Having PXE support for s390 would be pretty slick, esp if the boot PROM image could be loaded from a NSS. This could be easily accomplished by using the CMS IPLer and a very stripped down Linux kernel and a port of the PXE loader code. It's basically TFTP plus some little stuff. If you went the Linux route, you could use the IPLer to put the NSS with the minikernel system into memory in one piece, do the normal PXE DHCP and tftp steps to put the kernel into a fixed location, and then crash the boot ROM image by jumping directly to the new kernel. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Cobbler anyone?
Hi, I've been looking at getting cobbler to run on s390x to serve as a provisioning manager for x86 (and friends). It installs without too much fuss on RHEL 5.2. Getting it to install on SLES10 SP2 looks far more challenging. Our immediate need is for rapid x86 provisioning (we have the s390x provisioning down to a science). Cheers, Arty -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
