How to deploy an unattended Linux server using KICKSTART+PXE Automation installation

First, the preparatory work,

1. First of all, you have a DHCP server in your current environment to provide DHCP services for the clients you install, and the deployment of DHCP does not require us to repeat;

2. BIOS support PXE protocol for unattended Linux server installation;

3. The service side needs to have TFTP service, NFS service, HTTP service;

4. Installation service Kickstart, generate kickstart documents;

Second, the installation of deployment;

1. First look at the IP address of the server;

2. Then we need to install the above mentioned deployment package; Because our server does not have the desktop installed, first we install the desktop, because the tool to generate kickstart tools to generate configuration files Kickstart files, of course, you can manually write the file, We also need to install the Pxelinux service, which is not shown in the picture

3. Then the DNS test whether the normal resolution; About configuration and management of DNS services you can refer to the previous blog post

4. After the DHCP installation completes we need to modify the dhcpd.conf file, the following figure is the simple DNS configuration file, we need to pay special attention to IS, next-server, filename These two lines of files; The first line is the IP address of the specified server. That's the IP address. The IP address filename is the configuration name of the specified configuration file; When you write DHCP, you need to be aware of the format of DHCP do not format the time to write the wrong ~