Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT, Deployment Manual

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22.1 Deploying system manually from
rescue image
Deploying with generated ISO file from KIWI:
1. Burn the ISO image you get from the KIWI building process, see Section 17.4.2,
“Creating an Image” (page 261) on CD/DVD
2. Boot from this medium on the machine you want to install the system.
3. Select the hard disk you want to install.
4. Restart the machine and boot from hard disk.
Deploying over rescue system:
1. Boot the client to install with a rescue system. Such systems are available on
all SUSE installation CDs or DVDs.
2. Log in as root
. Leave the password empty, no need to enter anything.
3. Configure your network. If you have DHCP available in your network, this is
merely the command
ifup-dhcp eth0
. If you must do this manually, use
the command
ip
to configure your network. The output starting DHCP also
tells you the IP address of the computer.
4. Listen on an unused port of your network like 1234
and dump the incoming
data to disk with the command:
netcat -l -p 1234 > /dev/sda
5. On the imaging server, send the raw image to the client to install with the com-
mand:
netcat <IP of client> 1234 < $HOME/preload_image/<image_name>
6. When the image is transferred, remove the rescue system from your CD or DVD
drive and shutdown the client computer. At the next boot, the boot loader
GRUB
should be started on the client and the firstboot system will take over.
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