netboot/install on power architecture

Wed Jun 2 09:54:29 UTC 2004

Are you working with an power arch machine with an open firmware? If so, at
open firmware prompt, you can trigger the noninteractive network
installatin by running such a command:

0>boot /pci at 400000000211/pci at 2/ethernet at 1:
ks=nfs:NFS_SERVER_IP:/PATH_TO_KSCFG/ks.cfg

Here, "/pci at 400000000211/pci at 2/ethernet at 1" is device info of my working
NIC. Please find your own exact string from SMS menu.

After getting boot image by bootp, this client machine will launch that
image. And, "ks=nfs:..." will be passed to that image as kernel parameter.

Rgds,
WangNan

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He,

i have a question regarding automated installation (without any
interaction) and the location of the kickstart file. Pxeboot is not
supported by architecture reason. dhcp-option filename is used to give
redhat-netboot-image filename to the client.

I did not find any possibility to tell the network-booting client where to
get the ks.cfg file. Is it not possible to use kickstart in this specific
environment? Then i have to write a expect script, maybe python with
module pexpect, but this seems this is hard to maintain through different
version.

Best Regards,
Joerg Maier

JS20 Service Team
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH - Lab Boeblingen
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mail: jmaier at de.ibm.com
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