Linux. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

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1 Linux Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

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3 Linux Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

4 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Notices on page 77. Eighth Edition (March 2013) Copyright IBM Corporation 2009, US Government Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

5 Contents About this guide v Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit What's new in IBM Installation Toolkit Simplified Setup Tool Supported Linux distributions Hardware and software requirements IBM Installation Toolkit media contents Planning for IBM Installation Toolkit IBM Installation Toolkit running modes Downloading the IBM Installation Toolkit Determining a boot method Creating a DVD Creating and assigning a virtual optical device 10 Creating a bootable USB key Configuring the boot method to be used by the system Determining the location for the distribution media 13 Accessing the user interface Opening the user interface Using the text interface Accessing the user interface remotely Installing a Linux distribution Manually partitioning disks Working with partitions or LVM logical volumes Working with software RAID arrays Working with LVM volume groups Creating a network installation server Configuring the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit Manually configuring the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit Managing client systems for the boot server.. 23 Adding a client Editing a client Deleting a client Adding a subnet Editing a subnet Deleting a subnet Editing DHCP headers Applying changes Manually configuring a client system for the IBM Installation Toolkit boot server Managing Linux installation repositories available on the server Adding a repository Deleting a repository Adding an exported path Removing an exported path Manually creating a network installation repository Mounting the DVD media Configuring the network Updating an installed system Installing IBM Installation Toolkit on a system already running Linux Manually installing IBM Installation Toolkit using a Yum repository Managing software installation repositories Installing IBM packages on the system Updating your firmware Cloning your system Cloning devices Restoring devices Migrating an x86 server running Linux to an IBM Power Systems server Server Consolidation environment Server Consolidation tool considerations Supported Linux distributions for migration.. 38 Using the migration wizard Creating an LPAR Recovering your system Monitoring IBM Installation Toolkit tasks Accessing documentation resources Troubleshooting Known issues and workarounds Registering at IBM Getting customer support Error, information, and warning messages Notices Trademarks Copyright IBM Corp. 2009, 2013 iii

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7 About this guide This documentation is intended for system or network administrators of Power Systems servers who want to install Linux, update firmware, perform system recovery tasks, or install service and productivity tools on their systems. This edition applies to version 5.4 of the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. Release Notes IBM Installation Toolkit release notes can be found on the root directory of the DVD and at installationtoolkitreleasenotes.htm Support The IBM Installation Toolkit product is not officially supported by IBM Software Support, and is provided as-is. Customers are not entitled to IBM Software Support. However, you can find support information at: topics?communityuuid=fe e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32 or go to developerworks/mydeveloperworks/ and search for the Think PowerLinux group. Copyright IBM Corp. 2009, 2013 v

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9 Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux The IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux provides a set of tools and functions that allow you to quickly set up Linux on PowerLinux servers. Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit The IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux speeds up the installation of Linux, and gives you access to the IBM value-added software necessary to fully use the capabilities of the Power platform. You can use the IBM Installation Toolkit for the following actions: v Install and configure Linux on a non-virtualized Power System server. v Install and configure Linux on servers with previously-configured logical partitions (LPARs, also known as virtualized servers). v Install IBM service and productivity tools on a new or previously installed Linux system. The IBM service and productivity tools include dynamic logical partition (DLPAR) utilities. v Upgrade system firmware level on Power Systems servers. v Perform diagnostics or maintenance operations on previously installed systems. v Access documentation resources included with IBM Installation Toolkit. v Migrate a LAMP server (software stack) and application data from a System x to a System p system. A LAMP server is a bundle of open source software. LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL relational database, and PHP (Perl or Python) scripting language. What's new in IBM Installation Toolkit 5.4 IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux 5.4 introduces support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5.9 and 6.4. Simplified Setup Tool The IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux provides the IBM Installation Toolkit Simplified Setup Tool, which helps you to quickly set up open source workloads on your system. After you install the IBM Installation Toolkit, you can access the Simplified Setup Tool. The Simplified Setup Tool guides you through the process of quickly and easily configuring one or more open source workloads on your system. The workloads include: v LAMP server v Mail server v File and print server v Network infrastructure server You can access the Simplified Setup Tool directly through a web browser. To open the Simplified Setup Tool, point your browser to IP or hostname:6060, where server IP or hostname is the IP address or host name of your system. For documentation for the Simplified Setup Tool, see Getting started with PowerLinux servers ( Copyright IBM Corp. 2009,

10 Supported Linux distributions Use this information to determine which Linux distributions are supported by the IBM Installation Toolkit. The IBM Installation Toolkit supports installation of the following Linux distributions: v Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and 5.9 v Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and 6.4 v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 and SP2 Hardware and software requirements Before you install the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux, verify that you have the necessary hardware and software. Hardware requirements for using the IBM Installation Toolkit The IBM Installation Toolkit is intended for IBM Power Systems servers and IBM BladeCenter blade servers using IBM POWER7 processors. Required hardware includes the following: v CD or DVD-ROM reader, for CD- or DVD-based installations. v Network card, for installations over the network. v Minimum of 1 GB of RAM. v Additionally, refer to your Linux distribution documentation for minimum hardware requirements. Requirements for installing Linux using the IBM Installation Toolkit v Linux distribution installation media for ppc64 on a DVD or ISO image file Requirements for running IBM Installation Toolkit on a previously installed Linux system v IBM Installation Toolkit DVD or ISO image v Linux distribution installation media for ppc64 Additional requirements and restrictions v To use remote access with the IBM Installation Toolkit, you need a second system with Mozilla Firefox installed. v IBM Installation Toolkit does not support QLogic Fibre Channel cards on POWER processor-based blade servers. IBM Installation Toolkit media contents The IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux media contains documentation, firmware images, and value-add IBM packages. The media contents includes the following packages: devices.chrp.base.servicerm Service Resource Manager is a Reliable, Scalable, Cluster Technology (RSCT) resource manager that creates the Serviceable Events from the output of the Error Log Analysis tool (diagela). ServiceRM then sends these events to the Service Focal Point on the Hardware Management Console (HMC). 2 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

11 DynamicRM Dynamic Resource Manager is a Reliable, Scalable, Cluster Technology (RSCT) resource manager that allows a Hardware Management Console (HMC) to do tasks such as dynamically add or remove processors or I/O slots from a running partition, concurrently update system firmware, and perform certain shutdown operations on a partition. esagent.plinux IBM Electronic Service Agent for PowerLinux is a no-charge software tool that automatically and continuously monitors, collects, and periodically submits hardware problem information to the IBM Electronic Support website. It also can collect hardware, software, performance, and system configuration information, which might help IBM Support assist in diagnosing problems. IBMinvscout The Inventory Scout tool surveys one or more systems for hardware and software information. The gathered data can be used by web services such as the Microcode Discovery Service, which generates a report indicating whether installed microcode needs to be updated. ibm-java-ppc64-sdk This SDK is the IBM 64-bit SDK for Linux on Power Systems architecture, Java Technology Edition, Version 6. ibm-java-ppc-sdk This SDK is the IBM 32-bit SDK for Linux on Power Systems architecture, Java Technology Edition, Version 6. ibmpmlinux The ibmpmlinux package contains a data collector for enabling IBM Performance Management for Power Systems. PM for Power Systems enables automated performance analysis and capacity planning for PowerLinux servers. With PM for Power Systems, non-proprietary utilization and growth information can be automatically collected from the servers with logical partitions (LPARs) that you elect to monitor. You have the choice of transmitting the daily collected data to IBM on a routine basis, using IBM Electronic Service Agent for PowerLinux. To activate PM for Power Systems, you install the collector and then follow more specific instructions at the PM for Power Systems Getting started page ( perfmgmt/getstarted.html). See the PM for Power Systems Overview page ( for general information about PM for Power Systems. ibm-power-managed This package includes the recommended additional software packages for managed partitions on PowerLinux servers and blade servers. A managed server is a system that is managed by an HMC or by the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM). ibm-power-nonmanaged This package includes the recommended additional software packages for non-virtualized, non-managed PowerLinux servers. A non-managed server is a stand-alone system that is not used with an HMC or IVM. ibm-power-repo This package configures the system to get software package updates from the IBM Tools Repository for PowerLinux servers. For more information, refer to www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/yum.html. ibmit4linux-docs This package contains all of the PowerLinux servers documentation available from IBM. librtas The librtas package contains a library that allows applications to access certain functionality provided by platform firmware. This functionality is required by many of the other higher-level service and productivity tools. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 3

12 libservicelog The libservicelog library provides the API which servicelog uses to store, retrieve, and modify system event and error notification details. libvpd The libvpd package contains the classes that are used to access a vpd database created by vpdupdate in the lsvpd package. lpa The Large Page Analysis tool includes two programs. One program records runtime memory usage information about an application. The other generates a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss rate report based on the recorded memory usage information. The LPA tool tracks TLB misses by memory region within an application (heap, data, stack, text). Then the tool generates a report that shows where use of larger page size might benefit application performance. lsvpd The lsvpd package contains the lsvpd, lscfg, and lsmcode commands. These commands, along with a boot-time scanning script called update-lsvpd-db, constitute a hardware inventory system. nmon This tool is the Performance Analyzer for PowerLinux servers. openmpi-sles11 Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. This package is not automatically installed by IBM Installation Toolkit. It is shipped for those interested in manually installing openmpi on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 system. powerpc-utils-python powerpc-utils-python contains python-based utilities for maintaining and servicing PowerPC systems. powerpc-utils-sles10-addons powerpc-utils-sles10-addons contains additional utilities for maintaining and servicing PowerPC systems on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. ppc64-diag The Error Log Analysis tool provides automatic analysis and notification of errors reported by the platform firmware on IBM System p systems. pseries-energy System p Energy Management daemon automatically manages Linux OS settings based on system power modes. rsct.core and rsct.core.utils The RSC packages provide the Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) functions and infrastructure needed to monitor and manage one or more Linux systems. servicelog The servicelog package creates a database to store system-generated events that might require service. The package includes tools for querying the database. src SRC is a facility for managing daemons on a system. It provides a standard command interface for defining, undefining, starting, stopping, querying status and controlling trace for daemons. sst The sst package is the IBM Installation Toolkit Simplified Setup Tool. The Simplified Setup Tool guides you through the process of quickly and easily configuring one or more open source workloads on your system. The workloads include LAMP, mail, file and print, or network infrastructure servers. 4 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

13 Planning for IBM Installation Toolkit Proper planning is essential to successfully install and use the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux. Before you begin, define your goals for using the IBM Installation Toolkit. v Are you planning to use IBM Installation Toolkit to install Linux? Will you be installing Linux on only one system? Will you be installing Linux on more than one system? v Is your system already running Linux and you plan to use the IBM Installation Toolkit to install service and productivity packages, update your firmware, or perform system recovery tasks? Knowing the answers to these and other similar questions allows you to choose the correct path for installing and running the IBM Installation Toolkit. The following figure shows the paths and general steps for installing and running the IBM Installation Toolkit. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 5

14 Start the server Yes Linux installed? No Yes IBM Installation Toolkit installed? No Download IBM Installation Toolkit Done Download IBM Installation Toolkit Determine boot method Install IBM Installation Toolkit Boot server with IBM Installation Toolkit Done Locate Linux distribution media Install Linux Done LIAAN501-2 Figure 1. Installing and using the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux Either path for using the IBM Installation Toolkit begins with starting the server. Then, the paths diverge based on whether Linux is installed or to be installed. Path for using IBM Installation Toolkit to install Linux If Linux is not installed, use this path to install it with the IBM Installation Toolkit. 1. Download the IBM Installation Toolkit. To find out how to download the toolkit, see Downloading the IBM Installation Toolkit on page Determine a boot method for the IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image. You can choose from DVD device, virtual optical device, USB key, or network-based. For information, see Determining a boot method on page 9. After determining the boot method, configure it. For information, see Configuring the boot method to be used by the system on page Boot the server with the IBM Installation Toolkit using the method you previously determined and configured. 6 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

15 4. Determine a location for your Linux distribution installation media. You can choose to install the Linux distribution from DVD disks, virtual optical device, or from a network repository. For information, see Determining the location for the distribution media on page Use the installation wizard to install Linux. For more information, see Installing a Linux distribution on page 15. This completes the path and general steps for using IBM Installation Toolkit to install Linux. Path for preparing to use IBM Installation Toolkit to update a system when Linux is already installed If Linux is already installed, either with the IBM Installation Toolkit or using another method, use this path to install the IBM Installation Toolkit. This allows you to then update the system, including managing repositories, installing service and productivity packages, and more. 1. Determine whether the IBM Installation Toolkit is installed. Run the following command: rpm -q ibmit4linux v If the command outputs a line similar to ibmit4linux-version, IBM Installation Toolkit is installed. You are ready to use the IBM Installation Toolkit to update your system. v If you do not see a line similar to ibmit4linux-version, IBM Installation Toolkit is not installed. In this case, continue to the next item in the path. 2. Download the IBM Installation Toolkit. To find out how to download the IBM Installation Toolkit, see Downloading the IBM Installation Toolkit on page Install the IBM Installation Toolkit. To find out how to install the IBM Installation Toolkit, see Installing IBM Installation Toolkit on a system already running Linux on page 33. This completes the path and general steps for preparing to use IBM Installation Toolkit to update a system when Linux is already installed. You are now ready to use the IBM Installation Toolkit to update your system, including the following tasks: v Managing software installation repositories on page 34. v Installing IBM packages on the system on page 35. v Migrating an x86 server running Linux to an IBM Power Systems server on page 37. v Installing open source workloads using the IBM Installation Toolkit Simplified Setup Tool. For documentation for the Simplified Setup Tool, see Getting started with PowerLinux servers ( The tasks that you can perform depend on which mode you are running in. Related concepts: IBM Installation Toolkit running modes You can run the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux in either live or installed mode. The tasks that you can perform depend on the mode that you are running in. IBM Installation Toolkit running modes You can run the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux in either live or installed mode. The tasks that you can perform depend on the mode that you are running in. You can switch back and forth between live mode and installed mode. Live mode The live mode for the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux allows you to perform the following tasks: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 7

16 Install Linux See Installing a Linux distribution on page 15. Update firmware See Updating your firmware on page 35. Create a bootable USB key See Creating a bootable USB key on page 11. Configure the network See Configuring the network on page 32. Access documention See Accessing documentation resources on page 44. Register at IBM See Registering at IBM on page 46. Recover the system See Recovering your system on page 43. To use the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux in live mode, you must boot your system with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux media using one of the methods: v DVD v ISO image v Network v USB key See Determining a boot method on page 9 for information about determining which method to choose. See Configuring the boot method to be used by the system on page 12 for configuring it. After you boot your system, the following options are available: Wizard mode (performs the installation) Choose this option to use the live mode with the text interface. You can install Linux or access any of the other tasks that are available when using live mode. See Opening the user interface on page 14. You can also use this option to remotely access the user interface. For more information, see Accessing the user interface remotely on page 15. Wizard mode graphical (performs the installation using X) Choose this option to use the live mode with the graphical interface. This option is only available on systems that have a graphics card. See Opening the user interface on page 14. Rescue mode (initiates a terminal) Choose this option to use the recovery console. You can access a Linux console to perform recovery tasks. See Recovering your system on page 43. Installed mode To use the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux in installed mode, you must install the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux packages on your Linux system. If you used the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux to install your system, the packages are already installed. To install the packages on a system that already has Linux installed, see Installing IBM Installation Toolkit on a system already running Linux on page 33. After you have installed the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux packages, you can perform the following tasks: Install IBM packages on the system See Installing IBM packages on the system on page Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

17 Migrate an x86 server running Linux to an IBMPower Systems server See Migrating an x86 server running Linux to an IBM Power Systems server on page 37. Manage Linux installation repositories available on the server See Managing Linux installation repositories available on the server on page 28. Configure the boot server See Configuring the boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit on page 21. Manage client systems for the boot server See Managing client systems for the boot server on page 23. Create a bootable USB key See Creating a bootable USB key on page 11. Manage software installation repositories See Managing software installation repositories on page 34. Access documention See Accessing documentation resources on page 44. Register at IBM See Registering at IBM on page 46. Monitor tasks See Monitoring IBM Installation Toolkit tasks on page 43. After you have installed the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux, you can access the user interface. See Accessing the user interface on page 13 and Opening the user interface on page 14. Downloading the IBM Installation Toolkit This section explains how to download the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux ISO image. The IBM Installation Toolkit is available for download from the IBM website at www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/installtools/. Determining a boot method After you download the IBM Installation Toolkit, you must decide how you will boot the IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image. DVD device You can load the IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image onto DVD media and boot your system from the DVD device. To boot from a DVD disk, you need to perform these general steps: 1. Burn the IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image onto a DVD disk. 2. Ensure that the IBM Installation Toolkit disk is in the DVD drive of the system that you want to boot. 3. Restart the system or power it on. 4. Configure the system to boot from the DVD drive. For specific information about this task, see Creating a DVD on page 10. Virtual optical device You can boot the IBM Installation Toolkit directly from the ISO image if you have a system that has an LPAR with a virtual optical device. To boot directly from the IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image, you need to perform these general steps: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 9

18 1. Create a virtual optical device and assign it to the LPAR you want to boot with the IBM Installation Toolkit. 2. Associate the IBM Installation Toolkit ISO image with that virtual optical device. 3. Restart the LPAR or power it on. 4. Configure the LPAR to boot from the virtual optical device. For specific information about this task, see Creating and assigning a virtual optical device. USB key You can create a USB key to use as a booting method. To boot IBM Installation Toolkit from a USB key, you need to perform these general steps: 1. Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB key. 2. Restart the system or power it on. 3. Configure the system to boot from the USB device. For specific information about this task, see Creating a bootable USB key on page 11. Network-based Booting from the network allows you to easily install Linux on more than one system that is connected to the network. To boot IBM Installation Toolkit from the network, you need to perform these general steps: 1. Configure a network boot server for IBM Installation Toolkit. 2. Configure the boot server for the system. 3. Restart the system or power it on. 4. Configure the system to boot from the network interface. For specific information about this task, see Creating a network installation server on page 21. To find out how to configure your chosen boot method, see Configuring the boot method to be used by the system on page 12. Creating a DVD You can create an IBM Installation Toolkit DVD to use either as a booting method or as an installation source for the IBM Installation Toolkit. You can use any method to create a DVD from an ISO image. However, whatever method you choose, use high-quality DVD-R media to ensure the best data transfer. Do not use DVD+R, DVD-RM, or DVD-RAM media. Creating and assigning a virtual optical device This topic explains how to create and assign a virtual optical device to a logical partition (LPAR). LPARs are also known as virtual servers. After a virtual optical device has been assigned to an LPAR, you can boot IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux directly from the ISO image. About this task Note: This type of boot method is possible only with an LPAR that can have virtual optical devices assigned to it. To create and assign a virtual optical device to an LPAR, follow these steps: Procedure 1. Access the web interface of the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) of the system that contains the LPAR you want to set up. 10 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

19 2. On the left pane of the IVM main window, click View/Modify Partitions. 3. In the table of partitions (LPARs), select the partition where you want to create the new virtual optical device. 4. Ensure that the LPAR is shut down by clicking Shutdown. A window with shutdown options appears. Choose Immediate as the shutdown type and click OK. 5. On the IVM main window, select the name of the LPAR in the table of partitions. 6. Select Optical/Tape Devices to see the optical devices associated to the LPAR and then Virtual Optical Devices to expand the table of existing virtual devices. 7. Select Create Device. A new virtual device appears in the table. Click OK. 8. On the IVM main screen, select the LPAR in the table and click Activate to reactivate it. The new virtual optical device is now created and can be used at the LPAR. 9. On the IVM main screen, click View/Modify Virtual Storage. 10. On the tabs bar of the screen that appears, click Optical/Tape to see the table of ISO images available to be assigned. 11. Click Add Media to add the ISO image to be assigned. v To upload the ISO image file, click Upload media. v To use an ISO image file previously sent to the IVM system, click Add existing file. Click OK to add the ISO image file. 12. Select the ISO image file that you added and click Modify partition assignment to assign it to a virtual optical device of an LPAR. 13. Select the LPAR with the virtual optical device you want the ISO image file to be assigned to and click OK. The ISO image is assigned to the virtual optical device and can be accessed at the LPAR. Creating a bootable USB key You can create an IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux bootable USB key to use either as a booting method or as an installation source for the IBM Installation Toolkit. Before you begin Before creating an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB, you must have the following items: v Blank USB key (or one that can be erased) v IBM Installation Toolkit DVD or ISO image file About this task To create a bootable USB key, follow these steps: Procedure 1. From either live or installed mode, open the user interface. 2. Select Create an IBM Installation Toolkit bootable USB key. 3. On the Creation window, select the following information: v USB device: Select the USB device you want to use to create the IBM Installation Toolkit USB key. If the USB device that you want to use is not in the list, verify that it is connected and click Refresh. Note: Your USB device will be formatted and any data contained in it will be lost. v File system: Select the file system type to be used in the USB key. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 11

20 v IBMIT media source: Select where the IBM Installation Toolkit media is available to be read: CD/DVD-ROM drive or ISO image file. Files that are required to configure the boot server must be retrieved from the IBM Installation Toolkit media, so this field is required. v Extras: Select to include documentation, firmware files, and IBM packages in the USB key. Without any extras, the USB key is useful only to boot the system with IBM Installation Toolkit. If you chose ISO image as the IBM Installation Toolkit media source, browse your file system and select the ISO image file to be used. 4. Confirm your choices and click Next to create the IBM Installation Toolkit USB key. Results The process takes place in background and can be followed in the Task monitor at any time. Configuring the boot method to be used by the system This topic explains how to configure the boot method to be used by the system, as required to boot the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux live mode. About this task To configure the boot method to be used by the system, follow these steps: Procedure 1. Power on or restart your system. 2. After the initial hardware tests, the firmware boot screen appears, line by line. At this window, select the SMS Menu option by entering 1. Note: You must enter 1 before the firmware boot screen is completely shown on the display, because it will disappear when complete. IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM 1 = SMS Menu 5 = Default Boot List 8 = Open Firmware Prompt 6 = Stored Boot List Memory Keyboard Network SCSI Speaker Figure 2. Firmware boot screen 3. On the main SMS menu, select the Select Boot Options option by entering Enter 1 to select the boot device type selection menu. 5. Enter 7 to list all the available boot devices. 12 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

21 6. Enter the number corresponding the device you want to use. Tip: You can determine the device type based on its name: CD/DVD-ROM devices Names containing the word CD-ROM, such as SCSI CD-ROM and USB CD-ROM. This choice applies both for physical and virtual devices. Network devices Names containing the word Ethernet or LAN, such as Virtual Ethernet, IBM Host Ethernet adapter, and Interpartition Logical LAN. USB disk devices Names such as USB Disk. Note: Do not select USB CD-ROM, because booting from USB CD-ROM will result in an error. 7. Confirm the device type by entering Enter 1 to leave the SMS menu and start the boot process. Determining the location for the distribution media Before installing a Linux distribution, you must determine how and from what location you will be installing it. You can choose to install the Linux distribution from DVD media, a virtual optical device, or a network repository. DVD media If you have your Linux distribution installation media for ppc64 available on DVD media, you can use that media to install your Linux distribution. Use this option if you are planning to install Linux one time. Ensure that you have the disks available, or order them if necessary. Virtual optical device If you have your Linux distribution installation media for ppc64 available on an ISO image, you can use the ISO image to install your Linux distribution using a virtual optical device. Use this option if you are planning to install Linux on a logical partition (LPAR) with support for virtual optical devices and have the Linux distribution ISO images instead of physical DVD disks. Ensure that you have the ISO image available. Network installation repository If you have access to a network installation repository, you can use the repository to store your Linux distribution installation media for ppc64. Use this option if you are planning to install Linux multiple times. Ensure that you have the URL for the repository. If you need to create a network repository, see Managing Linux installation repositories available on the server on page 28 for information. Accessing the user interface After installing IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux, you can use IBM Installation Toolkit from either the text interface or the graphical interface. You can access the graphical interface remotely. The first time that you access the user interface, you must accept the IBM Installation Toolkit licenses. If you do not accept the licenses, you cannot access the user interface. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 13

22 Opening the user interface When using live mode, the user interface is available after your system has booted the IBM Installation Toolkit media, by selecting either of the Wizard mode options. Alternatively, you can open the IBM Installation Toolkit user interface at any time from a command prompt. You can open the interface in text mode. Alternatively, if you have a system that has a graphics card, you can open the user interface in graphical mode from that system. About this task Open the user interface from a command prompt by completing these steps: Procedure 1. At the command prompt, type the following command: $ ibmit4linux The user interface opens in the text interface. v If you want to use text mode, you are ready to begin. See Using the text interface. v If you want to use graphical mode, continue to the next step. 2. To start the graphical interface, complete the following steps: a. Open a Mozilla Firefox browser. You can use the browser either on the same system, or on another system. b. Enter the address IP:4234, where system IP is the IP address or host name of the system. c. Accept the self-signed certificate. Using the text interface The text interface uses the installed text mode web browser on the system to access an equivalent interface to the graphical interface. Although equivalent, the text interface presents slight changes to enable the graphical features in the restricted area of the system. This section discusses these changes and provides general instructions for using the text interface. About this task The following tips explain how to navigate with the text interface: Procedure v After you start the user interface in text mode, it opens in the available text browser. To navigate, use the UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, and TAB keys on the keyboard. v When the cursor is over a link, press Enter to go to its destination. If the cursor is over a field, you can press Enter to change its status or edit. v If you select Access documentation resources from the main menu, the local and online resources are displayed. The steps to select the resources differ slightly based on whether the documentation is local (PDF format) or online (external web site). To select an online resource, navigate to the link and press Enter. The external web site opens in the current browser. However, to download one of the listed local documentation resources in PDF format, you must navigate to the resource and enter A or a. Simply pressing Enter will not select the PDF. After the PDF is selected, the PDF downloads, while a status window is displayed. v To close the text interface, enter Q or q. v When using the text interface, some of the instructions are folded due to space limitations. You must select Show Instructions to view. After you complete the view, select Hide Instructions. 14 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

23 Accessing the user interface remotely If you are using the IBM Installation Toolkit in live mode or installed mode, you can access it from a different system in the same network. Select one of the following options. v In live mode, to remotely access IBM Installation Toolkit, open Mozilla Firefox on the remote system in your network. Enter the address where system_ip is the system IP address of the system that you are accessing. v In installed mode, to remotely access IBM Installation Toolkit, open Mozilla Firefox on the remote system in your network. Enter the address where system_ip is the system IP address of the system that you are accessing. Installing a Linux distribution Use the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux to install a Linux distribution. Before you begin Before starting the installation, you must have the following items: v DVD disks or a network installation repository for the Linux distribution to be installed v DVD disk, virtual disk, USB key, or a network installation repository for IBM Installation Toolkit To learn about the supported Linux distributions, supported hardware and IBM Installation Toolkit software available, refer to the section Introducing IBM Installation Toolkit on page 1. You can install Linux only when using IBM Installation Toolkit in live mode. See IBM Installation Toolkit running modes on page 7. About this task To install Linux on your system, follow these steps: Procedure 1. Open the user interface. 2. Select Install Linux. 3. Select the installation settings: v Linux distribution: Select one of the supported Linux distributions to install. v Installation profile: Select the set of packages to install. Click More info to see details about each of them. The available profiles are: Minimal Includes the smallest set of packages that allows the system to boot and to perform basic tasks. The disk usage is minimal. You can install additional packages in the future with the standard method provided by each Linux distribution. Minimal with X Includes all the packages included in Minimal but also includes the X Window System, a graphical environment that runs on Linux. This option is for servers that include a graphics card, but still have storage space restrictions. Default Includes the default package selection for the distribution and provides a balance between disk usage and functionality. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 15

24 Full Includes all of the package sets provided by the distribution. Requires the most disk space, but includes all the available packages. v Disk partitioning: Select to install Linux on automatically partitioned disks or to use manual partitioning. N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) is not supported. For automatic partitioning, choose one of the following options: Automatic partitioning on a disk Installs Linux on the chosen disk, which will be conventionally partitioned. Any data contained in that specific disk will be lost. Automatic partitioning using LVM Creates an LVM-based partitioning scheme using all existing disks and installs Linux on the partitions according to the partitioning scheme scheme. Any data contained in all disks will be lost. Automatic partitioning using SW RAID Creates a software RAID-based partitioning scheme using all existing disks and installs Linux on the partitions according to the partitioning scheme. Any data contained in all disks will be lost. This option is available only if you have at least two disks on the system. v Use driver disk: Select whether a driver disk will be used for the Linux installation or not. Click Next. 4. Select the workloads to be installed on the target system. After the workloads are installed, these workloads can then be optimally configured by the IBM Installation Toolkit Simplified Setup Tool tool. Click Next. 5. If you selected to use driver disks for an installation setting, you must select a driver update disk. Click Choose driver update disk and browse for the file with the driver disk to use. Note: You can add only a single driver disk. If the driver disk displayed is not correct, you must remove it before you add another one. Click Next. 6. Select the installation sources. Click Refresh sources to update the list with a new network installation repository or an inserted USB key. v Linux distribution source: Select the installation source for the Linux distribution. Depending on your system, CD/DVD devices and network installation repositories may be available. v Use custom network URL: Specify a URL if you want to use a Linux distribution network installation repository that is not listed. v IBMIT source: Select the installation source for the IBM packages. Depending on your system, CD/DVD devices, USB key devices, and network installation repositories may be available. v Use custom network URL: Specify a URL if you want to use an IBM packages network installation repository that is not listed. Click Next. 7. If you chose manual partitioning, you must manually partition the disk. Refer to the section Manually partitioning disks on page 18 for details about accomplishing this task and then return to this step. Click Next. 8. Configure the network for the installed system. You must configure global network settings as well as a network interface. To configure your global settings, enter the following information: v Fully qualified hostname: The hostname to be used in the installed system. v DNS server: Optionally, the IP address of the DNS server to be used in the installed system. 16 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

25 To configure your network interface, follow these steps: a. On the Network configuration main screen, select the interface you want to configure and click Configure. b. Enter the following information: v Configuration type: Choose the type of configuration by selecting Disabled, Automatic (DHCP), or Manual. v IP: For manual configuration, type the IP address to be used. v Netmask: For manual configuration, type the netmask to be used. v Gateway: Optionally, for manual configuration, type the IP address of the gateway to be used. c. Click Save to finish. You can check the configuration of a network interface by selecting it and clicking Details. Click OK to return to the Network setting window. When you are finished configuring your network settings, click Next. 9. Select the software repositories to be used in the installed system as sources to install new software or to get updates. For each of the selected repositories, the licenses must be accepted by checking I accept all the licenses above. Click See details to read the licenses for a repository and to get more information about it. 10. Choose the general settings for the installed system: v Keyboard: Language to be used for the keyboard. v Mouse: Mouse to be used. v Language: Language to be used on the installed system. v Timezone: Timezone to be used for the time and date settings on the installed system. Check Use UTC if you want to use UTC. v Root password: Root password for the installed system. v Confirm root password: Root password again to confirm it. Click Next. 11. Select the IBM software to be installed. You can see the packages that belong to a specific category by selecting it and clicking Apply. You can see details for a specific package by clicking See details. Packages that are unavailable for selection are automatically installed. Click Next. 12. Accept the licenses for the IBM software to be installed by checking I accept all the licenses above. You cannot proceed without accepting all of them. For each license, click Read license to learn more about it. Click Next. 13. Confirm the Linux installation settings, the workloads and IBM software to be installed, and the data that will be lost. If you are sure that this action is what you want, click Next to start the installation process. 14. If you chose to install the Linux distribution from CD/DVD-ROM, you are asked to insert the first disk to proceed. The installation process is displayed until the system reboots. After that, you can watch the terminal of the system to see the installation progress. Note: The Red Hat Setup Utility may start during the first boot after you have installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information about this utility, see Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation ( Note: If a partitioning or other installation preparation issue prevents Linux installation, see Known issues and workarounds. Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit 17

26 What to do next After you have installed Linux, you can use the IBM Installation Toolkit Simplified Setup Tool to configure one or more open source workloads. For documentation for the Simplified Setup Tool, see Getting started with PowerLinux servers ( topic/liaay/vploverview.htm). Manually partitioning disks This topic explains how to manually partition your disks to have Linux installed on them. The main window displays the available disks (physical and multipath), LVM volume groups, and software RAID arrays. To view the partitions of a disk, the logical volumes of an LVM volume group, or the software RAID arrays, select the disk, LVM volume group, or RAID array and click Change. Note: LVM logical partition or software RAID array might be referred to as partition, and LVM volume group might be referred to as disk. For each disk, the partitions are listed. For each partition, there are columns as follows: v Name: Indicates the partition name. Existing partitions have names that start with sd. New partitions start with new. For LVM volume groups, this value indicates the logical volume name. For RAID arrays, this value indicates the array name. Blank space slots start with blk. v Type: For disks, this value indicates the partition type. Valid types are Pri for primary, Log for logical, or Ext for extended. For software RAID arrays, this value indicates the RAID level. This field does not apply to LVM volume groups. v Size: Indicates the size of the partition. v Free: Indicates the amount of space that the partition has. v F.System: Indicates the file system that the partition uses. v M.Point: Indicates where the partition will be mounted in the installed system, for example / or /boot. v Format: Indicates whether the partition will be formatted and lose all data. Working with partitions or LVM logical volumes Use this information to add, edit, delete, and reset your partitions or LVM logical volumes. Adding a partition To add a partition: 1. On the Disk partitioning window, select an empty space in the current disk and click Add. 2. Enter the following partition settings: v File system: Specify the file system that the partition uses. If this partition is the first partition of the disk, the file system must be prep. v Size: Enter the size of the partition in MB, GB, or TB. Check All available to use all the space available. v Mount point: Specify where the partition is to be mounted, for example / or /boot. 3. Click Add to finish. Editing a partition To edit a partition, follow these steps: 1. On the Disk partitioning window, select the partition you want to edit and click Edit. 2. Modify the partition settings you want. v File system: Specify the file system that the partition uses. If this partition is the first partition of the disk, the file system must be prep. 18 Linux: Installing Linux with the IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux