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Introduction to Linux Installation
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Task Overview
Obtaining Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS
How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk
Selecting a Media Delivery Method
Local Installation By Accessing the Console Using the Serial or Video Port
Remote Installation By Accessing the Console Using ILOM
Installing Oracle Linux from Distribution Media
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Installing RHEL From Distribution Media
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Installing SLES From Distribution Media
Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation
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
How to Disable the Firewall for SUSE Linux
How to Disable the Firewall for Oracle 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 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
At the release of this document, Oracle VM 2.2.1 is the minimum supported version of Oracle VM. These instructions are for creating a PXE installation image of Oracle VM Server.
Before You Begin
The PXE installation procedure requires the following items:
You must have already completed the network infrastructure setup to support PXE. See Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation.
A CD/DVD drive accessible to the PXE Server.
Oracle VM Server distribution media set. This can be a set of CDs or a DVD.
# mkdir -p /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/
Note - Eject and insert CDs only when the CD/DVD drive is unmounted.
# mount dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/
# umount /mnt/cdrom
If you are installing from a DVD, you only have to do this once. When the copy is done, proceed to the next step.
# cp /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2
# cp /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2
/home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/ks.cfg
If you know the required commands, type them in. Or, you can copy and insert the following content:
lang en_US #langsupport en_US keyboard us #mouse genericusb timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles rootpw xxxx reboot bootloader --location=mbr install nfs --server n.n.n.n --dir /home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2 clearpart --all part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 512 --ondisk sda part swap --size 4096 --ondisk sda part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk sda network --bootproto dhcp # password : abc123 ovsagent --iscrypted Y2fEjdGT1W6nsLqtJbGUVeUp9e4= #ovsmgmntif eth0 auth --useshadow --enablemd5 firewall --disabled #Do not configure the X Window System skipx text %packages @Everything %pre %post --nochroot %post
where n.n.n.n is the IP address of your PXE server. Ensure that the location indicated after --dir is pointing to the top level of your image.
The following shows two examples labels for an Oracle VM menu:
Note - Type the text block from append through ks.cfg as one continuous string with no returns.
label ovm_svr_2.2 sda eth select kernel ovm_svr_2.2/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz append initrd=ovm_svr_2.2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 network ks=nfs:n.n.n.n:/home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/ks.cfg mem=32g label ovm_svr_2.2 sda eth select serial console kernel ovm_svr_2.2/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz append initrd=ovm_svr_2.2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 network ks=nfs:n.n.n.n:/home/pxeboot/ovm_svr_2.2/ks.cfg mem=32g console=ttyS0,115200
where n.n.n.n is the IP address of your PXE server.
/home/pxeboot/pxelinux.cfg/default