Hi, >From a previous SUSE install, Under SLES directory I see the below files
PARMFILE AUTOYAST X1 F PARMFILE CA X1 F PARMFILE $DEFAULT X1 V INITRD $DEFAULT X1 F VMRDR IKR X1 F So is that PARMFILE,INITRD and VMRDR files alone to be transferred ? Peter On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Berthold Gunreben <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:44:25 +0530 > Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Group, > > > > Are there anyone who have built SLES12 gold image yet ? I have > > performed RHEL70 gold image but this is the first time I am going to > > do the SUSE 12 image. > > > > For the SLES 12 gold image : > > > > 1 ) Is it the same three files : GENERIC.PRM,INITIRD and KERNEL to be > > transferred to the z/VM ? > > no, please see suse.ins on DVD1 for the correct files. > > > 2 ) What will be the disk size need to be added to the LINUX guest > > userid which will be used for Gold image Build ? > > This depends on the size of your installation. Typically for a system > disk, a 3390-9 should work. > > > 3 ) Are there any special changes needs to be done in Kickstart File ? > > With SLES, this is called autoyast. There is no kickstart. I personally > would recommend to use KIWI for a golden image though. With a golden > image, you always have to cleanup the image after finalising the > installation. Depending on the installed Software, this can be a > demanding task. KIWI produces images that never are booted until the > target system is deployed. > > Berthold > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Berthold Gunreben Build Service Team > http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 > SUSE LINUX GmbH D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, > Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
