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22.2.1 Setup a Boot and Install Server
There are four steps to accomplish to perform this task after you installed a SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server:
To perform this type of installation, proceed as follows:
1 Set up the installation source as described in Section 14.2, “Setting Up the
Server Holding the Installation Sources” (page 198). Choose a HTTP, or FTP
network server.
2 Set up a TFTP server to hold a boot image that will be created in a later step.
This is described in
Section 14.3.2, “Setting Up a TFTP Server” (page 211).
3
Set up a DHCP server to provide IP addresses to all machines and reveal the lo-
cation of the TFTP server to the target system. This is described in
Section 14.3.1,
“Setting Up a DHCP Server” (page 208).
4 Prepare the installation server PXE boot. This is described in further detail in
Section 14.3.3, “Using PXE Boot” (page 212).
Note, that the actual installation process will greatly benefit if you provide enough
memory to this machine to hold the preload image in memory. Secondly, using gigabit
ethernet will speedup the deployment process considerably compared to slower networks,
if the complete network supports this.
22.2.2 Creating a Preload Image
The process of creating images with KIWI is described in Section 17.4.2, “Creating an
Image” (page 261). However, to create a useful image for a mass deployment, several
considerations should be taken into account:
• A typical preload image will use the following type:
<type primary="true" filesystem="ext3" boot="oemboot/suse-SLES11">vmx</type>
• During the setup of a preload image, the image creation process is run multiple
times. The needed repositories to build the image should be available on the local
computer.
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