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May 2008
Install and Boot Linux on the New BladeCenter S
The IBM BladeCenter S is the newest BladeCenter designed for small and medium businesses. It is also the first BladeCenter to integrate the server and storage systems. This article shows you how to install SUSE Linux 10 on the BladeCenter S attached disks and then boot the blade from the operating system so the blade can work without a local disk.
March 2008
Prepare a Self-Installing Drive for Blade Servers
Build a bootable, self-installing hard disk drive for an IBM BladeCenter HS20 blade server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 following these nine easy steps. When the system boots from this drive for the first time, it automatically begins to install Linux on the disk, which eases the task of preloading the operating system and lightens user workload.
March 2007
Parallelize Application for Faster Linux Booting
Linux can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box, a flexibility that slows its booting process. This article shows you options to increase the speed with which Linux boots, including two options for parallelizing the initialization process. It also shows you how to visualize graphically the performance of the boot process.
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