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Download Server System Tools and Drivers
Hardware Installation and Product Notes
Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Installation Guide
Installation Overview and Preparation
Installing the Server Into a Rack With Optional Slide Rails
Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console
Configuring the Factory--Installed Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System
Powering On and Powering Off the Server
Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Product Notes
Oracle Solaris Operating System
Planning the Oracle Solaris Operating System Installation
Installing Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Introduction to Linux Installation
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
How to Install OEL From Distribution Media
How to Update the OEL Operating System
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Installing SLES10 or SLES11 From Distribution Media
Installing SLES10 Using Local or Remote Media
How to Install SLES10 Using Local or Remote Media
How to Install SLES11 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
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
How to Download RHEL Media Kits
How to Install RHEL From Distribution Media
How to Update the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software
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
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
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
Creating a PXE Image for SUSE Linux
How to Set Up and Copy SUSE Software to a Directory
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
Planning the Operating System Installation
Installing Windows Server 2008 Operating System
Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image
Configuring RAID Controller in the BIOS Setup Utility
Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Installation Guide for ESX Software
Preparing to Install VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0
Administration, Diagnostics, and Service
Overview of the ILOM Supplement
Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console
ILOM Platform Features for the Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server
Using ILOM to Monitor the Host
Introduction to Diagnostic Tools
U-Boot Diagnostic Startup Tests
Accessing the Pc-Check Diagnostics Utility on the Tools and Drivers CD/DVD
Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Service Manual Organization
Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Overview
Maintaining the Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server
Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Service Procedures and Information
When you create a Red Hat Linux Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) installation image on the same server that is your DHCP server, it will also act as your PXE server. The PXE server provides the operating system files to your PXE client.
Before you install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux image on your PXE server, you must configure your Linux network to support PXE images. See Overview of PXE Servers.
Before You Begin
The PXE installation procedure requires the following items:
A CD/DVD drive on the DHCP server.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux media set. This can be a set of CDs or a DVD.
A copy of the Red Hat files from the Tools and Drivers CD.
# mkdir -p /home/pxeboot/rhel4/
Note - The examples in this procedure use /home/pxeboot/rhel4/. You can use a different target directory if you choose. For example, you could use /home/pxeboot/rhel5/. If you used a different directory name, substitute it where appropriate.
Note - Eject and insert CDs only when the CD/DVD drive is unmounted.
# mount dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /home/pxeboot/rhel4/ # umount /mnt/cdrom
If you are installing from a DVD, you have to do this only once. When the copy is done, proceed to the next step.
# cp /home/pxeboot/rhel4/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz /home/pxeboot/rhel4/ # cp /home/pxeboot/rhel4/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /home/pxeboot/rhel4/
# cp /tmp/rhel4u3-pxefile/ks.cfg /home/pxeboot/rhel4/
The kickstart configuration file contains a configuration that might not be optimal for your operating environment. Modify the file as necessary to suit your environment.
For example, to make the RHEL 5.3 installation process fully automatic, add the following line to the end of the kickstart configuration file:
key --skip
Edit the nfs line is as follows:
nfs --server n.n.n.n --dir /home/pxeboot/rhel4/
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.
Note - Type the text block from append through ks.cfg as one continuous string with no returns.
default rhel4 label rhel4kernel rhel4/vmlinuz append ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=rhel4/initrd.img network ks=nfs:n.n.n.n:/home/pxeboot/rhel4/ks.cfg
where n.n.n.n is the IP address of your PXE server.
Note - For console-based installations, add console=ttyS0,9600 to the append line.
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