> Showing mu ignorance, but what is a 'Starter system'? In this context, it refers to a set of disk images that you can restore to the minidisks of a VM userid using reasonably standard mainframe utilities to create a local Linux install server for SLES10, removing any need for finding CD or DVD resources or network configurations outside the System z box. It includes some utilities and execs to make creating new images from the local server easy. We built it for Novell a while back based on an idea from Mike Walter presented on this list, and maintained it for SP1 and SP2. Novell opted not to continue it with later releases.
Historically, a "starter system" is a highly generic system image that you can restore into a bare machine and use it to get started on customizing a OS install for your specific hardware. In the VM/SP and earlier days, you got VM on tape, and the first stage of installing it was to restore the starter system to disk, IPL it, and then use it to build your real system. It was the third file on the installation tape (after iplable DSF and DDR...8-)), and you ordered the tape with the correct disk type for your disks (since DDR couldn't restore to different disk types). -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
