5. Ready for take-off

5.1 Everythin in place?

• Files in the AS/400:

     linux
     linux/bt
     linux/bt/pxelinux.bin
     linux/bt/pxelinux.cfg
     linux/bt/pxelinux.cfg/0A04011E
     linux/bt/bzImage2.4
     linux/bt/netfinity.initrd
     linux/netfinity
     linux/netfinity/netfinity.disk
  

• DHCP service started
• TFTP service started
• NFS service started
• Network interface adapter in the AS/400?
• Windows NT Server installed?

5.2 Booting

• Use the wrkcfgsts *nws command from the OS/400 console and ``vary on'' your IPCS using option 1.
• Press Ctrl-Alt-B when the 3com card asks for it
• Choose PXE as the boot method.
• Leave the card setup.

5.3 Take off

Plug and pray!

5.4 Stopping

Once Linux has started you shouldn't just kill it, else you'll have to wait on a file system integrity check on the next reboot. To shutdown linux you may log in as root and enter ``shutdown -h now''.

On the local console, you may press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, especially after changing /etc/inittab to perform a halt instead of a reboot.

From OS/400 you may telnet to your netfinity box, log on as a normal user, use su command to chane to root priviledge and enter the shutdown command ``shutdown -h now''. You may use an old fashioned twinax terminal to do so if you want, OS/400 supports a telnet command.

Afterwards OS/400 you may ``vary off'' the device from wrkcfgsts *nws using option 2, but since there is no status communication between both machines this essentially means the same as just switching off the PC. OS/400 will always report a failure.