December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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Chapter 2. System installation
In this chapter, we show you how to install the 64-bit Linux operating system on various types of pSeries servers, either standalone, or in LPAR mode. The steps presented here apply to the two distributions currently supported on pSeries: SLES 8 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8), and RHAS 3 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3).
This chapter contains:
2.1, “Before you install” on page 7. This section describes the steps you need to get started. We review the contents of each distribution and the hardware currently supported. We then describe how to set up the target hardware. This covers LPARs, if needed, and serial console and graphical display. Then we discuss the choices that the installation programs ...