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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2.2. Step-by-step installation
In this section, we describe how to install Linux on a pSeries system from CDs, either a standalone system or a LPAR. This is viable for a limited number of systems. If more systems need to be installed concurrently, network installation is the way to go.
Still, if you decide to implement the installation server on a Linux pSeries system, this server needs to be installed first, and this will likely be from CD. Also, apart from the boot process (which is different if you boot from CD or from the installation server), most of the screens that the installer program will display are identical.
For both distributions, the installation proceeds as follows:
Start the system from the Systems Management Services (SMS) ...