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List:       alice
Subject:    Re: [alice] ALICE / ppc / software raid
From:       Fabian.Herschel () suse ! de
Date:       2001-05-18 17:09:51
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Pieter Hollants wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Wes Kinard wrote:
> > The main reason we are looking to SuSE is because of its support of IBM
> > pSeries boxes.  This brings me to my next questions...  Is ALICE part of
> > SuSE 7.1 PPC?  I have some early release CD of SuSE 7.1 which are supposed
> > to be pretty complete but I haven't found ALICE on them.  Looking at the
> > ftp site, I have found an ALICE update under the 7.0 tree but haven't seen
> > anything for PPC 7.1.  Off subject , I am also wondering if anyone knows
> > when yast2 might work with the pSeries boxes.
> 
> Well, AFAIK ALICE contains at least some C components (Fabian, the tagged
> format parser?). 

The tag parser is written in perl. The only C-Code is the
LVM-Configuration
(alice_lvm_cmd).

The problem I see using alice on an non i386 or i64 plattform is, that
_I_
do not know how to create the diskettes to boot these machines and to 
start YaST1 in the auto mode.

The alice modules (shell scripts) are "only" configuration scripts at
the
linux os level. This should be equal enoguht to say, that it should be 
easyly to reuse alice on these plattforms. But: Its completely untested
today!

So it's not a problem of the design.

> The missing PPC support is not necessarily attributed to
> the PPC being a platform that _can't_ be supported, but rather simply is
> not supported yet. We (the ALICE developers) have no PPC box for testing.
> 
> As far as Yast2 for PPC is concerned, I'll forward the question and let
> you know.
> 
> > Finally, reading the documentation leads me to believe that network booting
> > is not supported.  Is there any reason I couldn't create diskettes for
> > doing a diskette/nfs install and then use those diskettes in combination
> > with something like PXELinux to boot remote machines and start the install?
> 
> The diskette/NFS install disks are simply modified versions of the
> original SuSE boot disks with additional information that tell YaST 1
> where to locate the SuSE distribution source files as well as further
> automation information. Such disks use DHCP at best.
> 
> With this information, maybe you could give us some information as how
> PXELinux would fit in here?
> 
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