>>> On 8/16/2012 at 04:35 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> >>> wrote:
> Please forgive any misused terminology, but wouldn't it be possible to have > something conceptually similar to the Intel PXE "netboot". This might be a > command run from CMS, or maybe even be IPLable in its own right. There is zpxe.rexx, written by Brad Hinson. We also include it in our version of the s390-tools package. From the script comments: zPXE is a PXE client used with Cobbler. It must be run under z/VM. zPXE uses TFTP to first download a list of profiles, then a specific kernel, initial RAMdisk, and PARM file. These files are then punched to start the install process. zPXE does not require a writeable 191 A disk. Files are downloaded to a temporary disk (VDISK). zPXE can also IPL a DASD disk by default. You can specify the default dasd in ZPXE CONF, as well as the hostname of the Cobbler server. Cobbler is part of the Spacewalk project, which is used as the base for the SUSE Manager product. SUSE Manager is an extra cost product, which needs to be taken into consideration. Adventuresome installations could build Cobbler or Spacewalk on their own, but most of our customers are loathe to do that. Sending everything through the virtual card reader/punch would be relatively slow, but for most cases that should be acceptable. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
