Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT, Deployment Manual

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To provide the installation sources over the network, set up a network installation
server (HTTP, NFS, FTP) as described in
Section 14.2.1, “Setting Up an Installation
Server Using YaST” (page 198). Use an
info
file to pass the server's location to the
installation routines.
21.1.4 Setting Up the Boot Scenario
The client can be booted in several different ways:
Network Boot
As for a normal remote installation, autoinstallation can be initiated with Wake on
LAN and PXE, the boot image and control file can be pulled in via TFTP, and the
installation sources from any network installation server.
Bootable CD-ROM
You can use the original SUSE Linux Enterprise media to boot the system for au-
toinstallation and pull in the control file from a network location or a floppy. Alter-
natively, create your own custom CD-ROM holding both the installation sources
and the AutoYaST profile.
The following sections provide a basic outline of the procedures for network boot or
boot from CD-ROM.
Preparing for Network Boot
Network booting with Wake on LAN, PXE, and TFTP is discussed in Section 14.1.3,
“Remote Installation via VNC—PXE Boot and Wake on LAN” (page 193). To make
the setup introduced there work for autoinstallation, modify the featured PXE Linux
configuration file (
/srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default
) to contain the
autoyast
parameter pointing to the location of the AutoYaST profile. An example
entry for a standard installation looks like this:
default linux
# default label linux
kernel linux
append initrd=initrd install=http://192.168.1.115/install/suse-enterprise/
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