Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V40z User Manual
Page 15
Chapter 2
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Software
9
4. Insert Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CD 2 into your server and copy its contents to
your PXE server, by typing the following commands:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp -a /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/
If you are prompted whether to overwrite any existing files, type
y
to overwrite the
files.
5. Remove CD 2 from the server after you type the following command:
# umount /dev/cdrom
6. Insert Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CD 3 into your server and copy its contents to
your PXE server, by typing the following commands:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp -a /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/
If you are prompted whether to overwrite any existing files, type
y
to overwrite the
files.
7. Remove CD 3 from the server after you type the following command:
# umount /dev/cdrom
8. Insert Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CD 4 into your server and copy its contents to
your PXE server, by typing the following commands:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp -a /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/
If you are prompted whether to overwrite any existing files, type
y
to overwrite the
files.
9. Remove CD 4 from the server after you type the following command:
# umount /dev/cdrom
10. Copy the kickstart file
ks.cfg
to your PXE server by typing the following
command:
# cp /tmp/rhel3_64-pxefiles/ks.cfg /home/pxeboot/
SunFire_rhel3
/
11. Copy the SCSI and network drivers from the temporary directory to the directory
shown below:
# cp /tmp/rhel3_64-pxefiles/bcm* /home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/
# cp /tmp/rhel3_64-pxefiles/lsi* /home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/
12. On your PXE server, edit and save the kickstart file
/home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/ks.cfg
so that the
nfs
line is as follows:
nfs --server
n.n.n.n
--dir /home/pxeboot/SunFire_rhel3/
Where n.n.n.n is the IP address of your PXE server. Double check that the location
indicated after
--dir
is pointing to the top level of your image.