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Hardware Installation and Product Notes
Overview of the Sun Blade X6275 M2 Server Module
Installing and Powering On the Server Module
Overview of the Sun Blade X6275 M2 Server Module Product Notes
System Software Release Features
Hardware, Firmware, and BIOS Issues
Installing the Oracle Solaris Operating System
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Installing the SLES Operating System
Introduction to Oracle VM Installation
How to Obtain Oracle VM Software
How to Install Oracle VM Server
How to Install Oracle VM Manager
Creating and Managing VM Resources
Creating a PXE Installation Image for Oracle VM
Introduction to Windows Installation
Getting Started With Windows Server 2008 Installation
Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System
Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software
Incorporating Device Drivers into a WIM Image for WDS
Administration, Diagnostics, and Service
Overview of the ILOM Supplement
Managing Power Usage and Monitoring Power Consumption
Configuring the Server Power Restore Policy
Switching the Default Serial Port Output Between SP and Host Console
Indicators, Sensors, and Traps
Introduction to Diagnostic Tools
U-Boot Diagnostic Startup Tests
Accessing the Pc-Check Diagnostics Utility on the Tools and Drivers CD/DVD
Server Module and Components Overview
Preparation Procedures for Service and Operation
Component Removal and Installation Procedures
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.
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 have to do this only 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