Michael Hannon wrote:
Hi, folks. We've been kickstart installations via PXE boots for some
time, but we're currently using a Debian host for the tftp/PXE stuff. I
want to get rid of the Debian system, so I'm trying to set up a similar
arrangement on a system running SL 5.0.
I took a look at TUV documentation for this stuff, e.g.:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-netboot-pxe-config.html
and it says that one way to set this up is to use:
system-config-netboot
Specifically, it says:
To use the graphical version of the Network Booting Tool, you
must be running the X Window System, have root privileges, and
have the system-config-netboot RPM package installed.
It also discusses a command-line-based approach, but that approach
appears to require tools from the same package.
I can't find any "netboot" RPM package:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 5.0 (Boron)
# locate netboot
#
# yum list | grep -i netboot
#
# yum --enablerepo=* list | grep -i netboot
#
Can anybody point me to the relevant location for this, and/or provide
me with a crib-sheet for doing the installation some other way?
I'm sure it's covered in detail in the Red Hat documents. They should be
part of SL (I've not looked), they _are_ hosted by CentOS and I'm sure
by Red Hat.
Largely forget Debian. I've use both, I don't think one is better than
the other for this, though they are different.
Your server(s) need working networking. Configuring that has nothing
special to do with the task at hand.
I'm looking at my WBEL4 box as I write.
you need dhcpd3. Your configuration from Debian should work with minimal
changes. This hands out DHCP addresses and tells clients which file to
load and where to get it (it can be a different server, and on Debian I
use that feature).
You need tftpd and xinetd. Install them, ensure xinetd starts on boot
and that tftpd is enabled:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
# default: off
# description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file
transfer \
# protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \
# workstations, download configuration files to network-aware
printers, \
# and to start the installation process for some operating systems.
service tftp
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /tftpboot -v -v -r blksize
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
flags = IPv4
}
Don't ask, that works.
At this stage you should be able to boot a client and have it get an IP
address etc, the details of where to load pxelinux.0 and able to load it.
Red Hat puts the tftp stuff in /tftpboot, Debian uses some other place.
Copying Debian's to SL should just work.
After this, a PXE client should be able to load pxelinux.0 and have it
load its configuration file.
The configuration file won't work well unless everything's in /tftpboot.
Probably, you need to configure an install source, using nfs, ftp or http.
I prefer http because I like the logs, they're good records of what
happened, they identify all the files you actually need, they're good
for diagnosing things when something doesn't work.
For this, I use Apache httpd
importantly, Apache can be configured as a caching proxy; I installed a
beta of FC2 with four-hour dialup sessions, because the files already
used were cached and so restarting the install after timeouts was quick.
Potentially, I could be installed and running before I could download a
set of ISO images through my ADSL connexion. On several machines.
I configure virtual hosts in Apache. here is a sample:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /var/local/mirrors/linux/RHEL
ServerName RHEL.demo.lan
ServerAlias RHEL.demo.room
ServerAlias RHEL
Alias /Fedora/ "/var/local/mirrors/linux/Fedora/"
Alias /ScientificLinux/
"/var/local/mirrors/linux/ScientificLinux/"
Alias /CentOS/ "/var/local/mirrors/linux/CentOS/"
ScriptAlias /ks/ "/var/local/mirrors/linux/ks/"
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/RHEL-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/RHEL-access_log combined
<directory "/var/local/mirrors/linux/Fedora">
AllowOverride None
Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/local/mirrors/linux/CentOS/">
AllowOverride None
Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168
</Directory>
<directory "/var/local/mirrors/linux/ScientificLinux">
AllowOverride None
Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
--
Cheers
John
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