Using VIO Installation server

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UNSUPPORTED !!! but I tried using the AIX based VIO server as a SUSE Linux installation server... and it works fine. Just needed to configure and enable tftp and bootp...

/etc/bootptab contents:

sles1:bf=/tftpboot/sles1:ip=192.168.10.11:ht=ethernet:sa=192.168.10.10:sm=255.255.255.0:
sles2:bf=/tftpboot/sles2:ip=192.168.10.12:ht=ethernet:sa=192.168.10.10:sm=255.255.255.0:
sles3:bf=/tftpboot/sles3:ip=192.168.10.13:ht=ethernet:sa=192.168.10.10:sm=255.255.255.0:

/tftpboot contents:

ls -al /tftpboot

# ls -al /tftpboot
total 32168
drwxrwxrwx   3 root     system          256 Nov 03 09:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  17 root     system         4096 Nov 04 07:48 ..
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     staff       5484730 Nov 03 11:08 sles1
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     staff       5484730 Nov 03 11:08 sles2
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     staff       5484730 Nov 03 11:08 sles3

• Edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment bootps and tftp lines
• refresh -s inetd
• Use IPL Settings, directed bootp requests from client LPARs (assign adress and server address)