PXE unattended RHEL5.9 system installation
PXE unattended RHEL5.9 system installation
Lab requirements:
The PXE network installation method is used to automatically install the RHEL5.9 System for unattended servers.
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Tutorial steps:
1. Prepare a RHEL5.9 operating system server with yum
2. install the software system-config-kickstart, xinetd, tftp-server, dhcp, and httpd.
Note: various software applications
System-config-kickstart: A graphical tool used to generate a configuration file for Automatic Installation
Tftp-server: Provides the tftp service for transferring simple files during installation.
Dhcp: Provides the dhcp service, assigns an IP address to the client, and specifies the location of the tftp server.
Xinetd: Manage the tftp service
Httpd: Provides web Services for transferring installation image files
3. Configure the dhcp service
Start dhcp Service
4. Configure the tftp service
[Root @ localhost ~] # Vim/etc/xinetd. d/tftp
Restart the tftp service and set Automatic startup
5. Prepare relevant documents
Initrd. img
Vmlinuz: Kernel File
Pxelinux.0: pxe Network Installation Guide File
Isolinux. cfg: records information during Automatic Installation and needs to be changed to default
Set initrd. img, initrd. put the img and pxelinux.0 files in the tftp root directory, and create a new pxelinux folder under the tftp root directory. cfg folder. put the cfg file in this folder and change it to default
6. Use system-config-kickstart to generate the automatic installation configuration file
[Root @ localhost ~] # System-config-kickstart
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