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
How to Configure the Serial Port
Remote Installation By Accessing the Console Using ILOM
How to Access the Server Console Using the Server's ILOM Web Interface
How to Access the Server Console Using the Server's ILOM CLI Interface
Installing Oracle Linux from Distribution Media
How to Download Oracle Linux Media
How to Install Oracle Linux From Distribution Media
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
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
How to Update the SLES Operating System
How to Update the SLES Drivers
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 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
This section describes how to configure a PXE server on a Linux system and use it to install Linux on your server.
You can configure PXE to support a network installation of a supported OS for your server, such as Oracle Linux 5.5 (64–bit), RHEL 5.5 (64–bit), and SLES 11 (64–bit).
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.
Configuring a PXE server consists of the following procedures.
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