Re: [suse-sles-e] boot CD for SLES9 (Netboot YaST howto)
On Mon, 30 May 2005 10:23 pm, Ajay Mulwani wrote:
What I am looking for is booting the machine using CD and installing the OS from an nfs repository. Good idea, it's faster and easier than juggling CDs.
But why not netboot into an install?
You'll need:
a DHCP server
with /etc/dhcpd.conf setup
a tftp server (atftpd)
with /tftpboot/pxelinux.0
and /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
the CD default kernel /tftpboot/sles9-vmlinuz.default
the CD YaST initrd /tftpboot/sles9-initrd.yast
a network repository of the Suse of your choice
(Suse Pro is always easy, just copy the DVD in whole)
Want to try it? Here we go...
Fire up YaST2 : Install and Remove Software
Install:
dhcp-server
syslinux
atftp (get rid of tftpd if you had it)
Edit /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd and set the correct interface
eg: DHCPD_INTERFACE="eth1"
Edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to include:
host target {
hardware ethernet mac:address:of:target:machine;
fixed-address
Thanks for the response Michael. The PXE/tftp server is also configured at my site. However some of the remote sites are really small and don't need a DHCP server. The nfs repository is getting synced from my local server to the remote sites. What I need is a solution to CD boot and install over nfs. Thanks, Ajay
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Ajay Mulwani
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Michael James