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Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Installation Guide for Linux Operating Systems
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Document Information

Preface

Related Books

About This Documentation (PDF and HTML)

Documentation Comments

Download Server System Tools and Drivers

Documents History

Introduction to Linux Installation

Supported Operating Systems

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing an OS

Accessing the Console During Installation

How to Configure the Serial Port

How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk

Installing Oracle Enterprise Linux

Installing OEL from Distribution Media

Updating OEL

Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Installing SLES10 or SLES11 From Distribution Media

Installing SLES10 Using Local or Remote Media

Installing SLES10 or SLES 11 Using a PXE Network Environment

How to Install SLES10 or SLES11 Using Network PXE Boot

Post SLES Installation Tasks

How to Update the SLES Operating System

Installing System Device Drivers to Support Additional Hardware

How to Install System Device Drivers Using Local or Remote Media

How to Install the System Device Drivers Using a Network Share or USB Device

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation

Installing RHEL From Distribution Media

Updating RHEL

Booting From OS Distribution Media

How to Boot From OS Media Locally

How to Boot From OS Distribution Media or ISO File Remotely

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Overview of PXE Servers

How to Install and Configure a DHCP Server

How to Install Portmap on Your DHCP Server

How to Configure the TFTP Service on Your DHCP Server

How to Install and Configure the neopxe Boot Server Daemon

How to Configure the NFS Service on Your PXE Server

Disabling the Firewall

How to Disable the Firewall for SUSE Linux

How to Disable the Firewall for Red Hat Linux

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle Enterprise Linux

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Red Hat Linux

Creating a PXE Image for SUSE Linux

How to Set Up and Copy SUSE Software to a Directory

How to Set Up SUSE PXE Files

How to Install Linux From a PXE Server

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration

SUSE Linux - How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS

RHEL - How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS

Index

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

This topic describes how to configure a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) server on a Linux system and use it to install Linux on your servers.

PXE is a powerful and convenient solution for setting up a number of servers so their configuration is identical. It allows you to configure a server, which you can then use to install identical versions of the OS on any number of network systems.

The on-board network interface card (NIC) in your server supports the PXE network booting protocol. The system BIOS and network interface BIOS on your server automatically query the network for a DHCP server. If that DHCP server on the network has been configured to support the PXE protocol and PXE image servers on the same network, then the BIOS on your system can be used to install a bootable Linux image on your server.

Configuring a PXE server consists of the following procedures.

Step
Description
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1
Verify the presence of, or install, the following servers and services:
2
Disable the firewall.
3
Create a PXE installation image.
4
Install Linux from a PXE server.