Use VMware to experience unattended RHEL 6 installation (1)

Recently, a formal version of RHEL 6 was downloaded, and an unattended installation using Kickstart was tested in VMware. The method and steps are as follows:

Method: FTP + TFTP + DHCP + Kickstart + PXE

Prepare two virtual machines, one as the test environment RHEL 6 with IP address 192.168.0.100) and the other as the RHEL 6 installation end.

1. Install the required services and modify the corresponding configuration files:

1. I will use yum to install the required software package. First, I will build the yum disc Source:

[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

Create a file ending with. repo in the/etc/yum. repos. d directory:

[root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/serverl.repo

The configuration is as follows:

2. Install vsftpd and enable the Service:

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install vsftpd[root@localhost ~]# service vsftpd start

3. Install TFTP, modify the tftp configuration file, and enable the Service:

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install tftp[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install tftp-server[root@localhost ~]# vim /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

[root@localhost ~]#service xinetd restart

To verify whether the tftp port is Enabled:

OK, no problem!

4. Install dhcp, modify the configuration file, and enable the Service:

[root@localhost ~]#yum -y install dhcp

Create a configuration file:

Modify the configuration file:

[root@localhost ~]#vi /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

The following is the configuration file. The red box is used for adding and modifying the configuration file.

[root@localhost ~]#service dhcpd restart  

2. Configure related files required to start with PXE:

[root@localhost ~]#mkdir /tftpboot[root@localhost ~]#mkdir /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg[root@localhost ~]#cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/[root@localhost Packages]# cp /mnt/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default[root@localhost Packages]# cp /mnt/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /tftpboot/[root@localhost Packages]# cp /mnt/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz /tftpboot/[root@localhost Packages]# chmod 644 /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default[root@localhost Packages]# vim /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

Add one of the following default files to mark them in red)