MAKE PXE BOOT SERVER IN REDHAT LINUX FOR

NETWORK INSTALLATION (FEDORA, REDHAT )

Objective : We are pepole of IT , observe that many problem will be arised for Redhat Installation. Every time
putting dvd , it is very boring situation . To avoid this problem how to install redhat using Network through
FTP,DCHP,NFS.

Enable Remote Access

Time to make your install data available to other machines on the network. Redhat can be
installed over the network using NFS, HTTP and FTP protocols. You can select which of these
will be used at install time on the client. If one of the services is not setup on the machine then it
will still be available for selection by the client but the install will not work. Therefore, it is
either best to enable all three services on your server (so they all work on each client machine) or
if you don't enable all three then advertise the fact very well and say which service should be
used for your particular install server.

NFS

The NFS protocol is the only one which will work with the graphical install method of Redhat
when installing your client machine. Therefore, if you want to do graphical (as opposed to text
based) installations then you must enable this service on your server.

To install over NFS you need to meet certain conditions on the server:

• Your install directory is exported

• NFS is installed and running
• Portmap is running

To export your install directory edit the /etc/exports file and add an entry for /install to it.
In our example, we would use the folowing line:

/install *(ro)
When you have saved your exports file you must then get your NFS daemon to read its
configuration file again in order to export the directory you just added. Do this by running the
command:
exportfs -r
This gives us the most simple read-only export to all hosts on our network.
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FTP

The FTP protocol will only allow text installs to be performed by your clients. This may or may
not be ideal for your situation but bear it in mind.

To install over FTP you need to allow FTP access to the directory that you have setup on the
server as the installation directory. This can be either anonymous FTP access or access through a
named account with a password. Anonymous access is probably best unless you have a reason to
protect your install server via a password.

DHCP : -

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an auto configuration protocol used on IP networks.
Computers that are connected to IP networks must be configured before they can communicate with
other computers on the network. DHCP allows a computer to be configured automatically, eliminating
the need for intervention by a network administrator. It also provides a central database for keeping
track of computers that have been connected to the network. This prevents two computers from
accidentally being configured with the same IP address.

Step By step Procedure

1. Install Red hat 5.0 and Red hat 6.0 in Server Machine.

Locate Free Space

Copy your install media to /install. The following example shows you how to do this for
copying your Redhat CD images to /install:

• Mount your CD
e.g. mount /mnt/cdrom
• Copy the data from CD
e.g. cp -av /mnt/cdrom /install
• Unmount the CD
e.g. umount /mnt/cdrom
• Now swap CDs and repeat from step 1 for each of your CDs you have.

Now copy all files from mnt to /ftp/var/pub in the following directory.
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Software(rpm package) Requirements :

i. dhcp-4.1.1-12.P1.el6.i686.rpm
ii. dhclient-4.1.1-12.P1.el6.i686.rpm
iii. ftp-0.17-51.1.el6.i686.rpm
iv. nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3-5.el6.i686.rpm
v. nfs-utils-1.2.2-7.el6.i686.rpm
vi. nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-1.el6.i686.rpm
vii. tftp-0.49-5.1.el6.i686.rpm
viii. tftp-server-0.49-5.1.el6.i686.rpm

You have to find all package in your DVD .

i. open dvd.(or Mount dvd)

ii. open package folder . like that

2. Install all above rpm Package individually.

3. Configure your dhcp server.
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Here we observe that server Ip address is :192.168.6.1 . Range will be 192.168.6.200 to

192.168.6.210. ( Ten Ip address are automatically assigned to 10 clients).
4. Save this File .
5. Restart dhcp service.
6. #service dhcpd restart
7. Installing and enabling tftp service
8. #yum –y install tftp-server
9. #vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

10. #service xinetd restart

11. #mkdir /tftpboot
12. Copy below the files into tftp directory
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Configuring the MENU

This is the method by which one can do a PXE installation from a package and image archive
served by a local web server, FTP server, or NFS server

As per my setup;

#vim /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

# /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
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NFS configuration

1. System  Server Settings  NFS

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Contents of the File will be :-

/etc/Export file.

# showmount -e
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Now all services restarted .

Now Your server will be ready for Installation.

Now our PXE server is ready. We can go to client box and boot from pxemethod by pressing
F12 bottom.
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Now to at Client Side .........

Press F9 For Lan Boot.....

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Conclusion :

The above project are succressfully run in Many Lab in Our Organization .

Now we are controlled all hosts Redhat or Fedora Installation through One Server.

Prepared by :

1. Jahiruddin Ahamed( Lecturer of Information Technology Of D.I.ET)

2. Pinaki Chakroborty(System Administrator of D.I.ET)

3. Md .Rameez Islam(Technical Assistant of D.I.ET).