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# 15  
Old 01-29-2008
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Originally Posted by efrat bank
Funny as it may sound, i am an IBM worker and trying + failing with nimol.

I guess my main question now is whether you did find the documentations on nimol.

I am looking for the nimol equivalence for nim "lsnim"....

Other than that, i cannot help much...my nimol_backup worked ok (after 2 days of strugeling) but i was not able to boot the client and "load" the mksysb.

Also, i you have any usefull info about bootp and lpar_netboot and their possible error that will b great..

Have fun and take care,
Efrat
I have the NIMOL environment setup on my SUSE10 enterprise server. I can fire off a TFTP boot which is running all the time. However when I turn on the 43p it sends a BOOTP request which I believe is answered with a DHCP address allocation. This is the problem I believe, the 43p does not understand the reply and is expecting a tftp reply instead as the normal NIM operation. Also forget lsnim as there is no such command I believe the alternative is nimol-config -l but I might be wrong.
# 16  
Old 01-29-2008
Computer
Why don't you want just buy a second hand p5 machine, B80.

Used IBM pSeries 640 Model B80, Used IBM pSeries Server, Refurbished IBM pSeries Server and IBM pSeries Server Parts.

I bought it last year, only $400 with 2 cpu, 4g, 2 36Ghd, etc.

I tested it with aix 5.3/6, works fine.
# 17  
Old 01-30-2008
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Originally Posted by johnf
However when I turn on the 43p it sends a BOOTP request which I believe is answered with a DHCP address allocation.
As far as i remember my networking bouts DHCP is a superset of bootp (see RFC 1534 here and perhaps RFC 1533 here).

It should be possible to tweak the DHCP daemon to answer bootp requests correctly (by bootp means only).

bakunin
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