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Using This Documentation

Hardware Installation

Operating System Installation

Linux

Linux Installation Task Map

Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant (OHIA)

Task Overview

Obtaining OHIA

Preparing for OS Installation

How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk

Creating a Virtual Disk

How to Create a Virtual Disk

About Using the x2APIC Option

Selecting a Media Delivery Method

Local Installation by Accessing the Console Using the Serial or Video Port

How to Configure the Serial Port

Remote Installation by Accessing the Console Using Oracle ILOM

How to Access the Server Console Using Oracle ILOM Web Interface

How to Access the Server Console Using the Oracle ILOM CLI Interface

Installing Oracle Linux

Installing Oracle Linux From Distribution Media

How to Download Oracle Linux Media

How to Install Oracle Linux From Distribution Media

Updating Oracle Linux

How to Update the Oracle Linux Operating System

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Installing RHEL From Distribution Media

How to Download RHEL Media Kits

How to Install RHEL From Distribution Media

Updating RHEL

How to Update the RHEL Operating System

How to Update the RHEL Drivers

Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Installing SLES From Distribution Media

How to Download SLES Media Kits

How to Install SLES From Distribution Media

Updating SLES

How to Update the SLES Operating System

How to Update the SLES Drivers

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Overview of PXE

How to Install and Configure a DHCP Server for PXE

How to Install Portmap on Your PXE Server

How to Configure the TFTP Service on Your PXE Server

How to Configure PXELINUX on Your PXE Server

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 Oracle Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle Linux

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for RHEL

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for SLES

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle VM

How to Install Linux From a PXE Server

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration

How to Identify Installed Network Ports

How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing Oracle Linux or RHEL

How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing SLES

Administration, Diagnostics, and Service

Index

How to Configure PXELINUX on Your PXE Server

The PXELINUX environment can be used for the target system to boot the OS installer. PXELINUX is part of SYSLINUX. Some versions of Linux might include an older version of PXELINUX.

You can obtain SYSLINUX at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

  1. On your PXE server, create the following directory

    # mkdir /home/pxeboot

  2. Obtain, download, and extract the SYSLINUX package to a directory accessible to your PXE server.
  3. Copy the pxelinux.0 file from the extracted SYSLINUX package to the appropriate directory on the PXE server:

    # cp /syslinux-directory/core/pxelinux.0 /home/pxeboot

    where syslinux-directory is where SYSLINUX has been extracted.

  4. Create the pxelinux.cfg directory.

    # mkdir /home/pxeboot/pxelinux.cfg

    Under this directory you will create a default PXE configuration file. This procedure is described later in the process.