Alyce, > I followed the directions in the ?SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System Z: > Installation Guide? for NOVSTART This is related to the SLES Starter System
> I looked in the ?Virtualization Cookbook?? And this is related to another "project" started earlier. Both "projects" are designed to help you get started and to teach z/VM and Linux. I'm not sure how well they intermix. But they probably can. As I understand the SLES starter system, the main goal is to get you an "Install Server" - that is, the SLES installation source made available via NFS or FTP. The Virtualization Cookbook does this a different way, but goes farther. The Cookbook recommends starting with a PC server to install the first Linux. If you have the SLES starter system working then you can skip that part (chapter 6). The next two chapters describe how to install a "controller" or cloner+NFS server and then a "golden image" that gets cloned and is normally shut down. If you already have the SLES starter system serving up the SLES 10 (SP2?) install tree, then you may not need the controller, rather you could just copy the clone.sh script to that. To clone you will certainly need a "golden image". It is important that the golden image have minidisks at 100 and 101 (this has changed for the SLES 10 SP2 cookbook which is now a redbook) because the clone.sh script has those two virtual addresses hard coded as the disks that will be copied. So I would recommend using the golden image directory entry described in chapter 8: USER SLES10S2 LNX4VM 512M 1G G INCLUDE LNXDFLT OPTION LNKNOPAS APPLMON MDISK 100 3390 0001 3338 <MMD955> MR LNX4VM LNX4VM LNX4VM MDISK 101 3390 0001 3338 <MMD956> MR LNX4VM LNX4VM LNX4VM Does this make sense? "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061
