Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V40z User Manual

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Chapter 4

Installing SUSE Linux Professional 9.0 Software

6. On your PXE server, modify and save the file

/home/pxeboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

to add the following entry to it:

Note that you should type the text block from

append

through

autoinst.xml

one continuous string with no returns.

default SunFire_suse9

label SunFire_suse9

kernel SunFire_suse9/boot/loader/linux

append textmode=1 initrd=SunFire_suse9/boot/loader/initrd

install=nfs:/home/pxeboot/SunFire_suse9 insmod=bcm5700

autoyast=nfs://n.n.n.n/home/pxeboot/SunFire-suse9/autoinst.xml

Where n.n.n.n is the IP address of your PXE server.

Note –

For console-based installations, add

console=ttyS0,19200

to the

append

line.

7. Copy the Ethernet and SCSI RPMs into the proper directory by typing the

following command:

# cp /tmp/suse9-pxefiles/*.x86_64.rpm \

/home/pxeboot/SunFire_suse9/suse/x86_64/

8. Copy the RPM selection file to the proper directory by typing the following

command:

If the systems you are building are single-processor systems, type the following
command:

# cp /tmp/suse9-pxefiles/Sunfire.sel.up \

/home/pxeboot/SunFire_suse9/suse/setup/descr/Sunfire.sel

If the systems you are building have more than one processor, type the following
command:

# cp /tmp/suse9-pxefiles/Sunfire.sel.smp \

/home/pxeboot/SunFire_suse9/suse/setup/descr/Sunfire.sel

9. Update the package description files by typing the following commands:

# cd /home/pxeboot/SunFire_suse9/suse/

# create_package_descr -d /home/pxeboot/SunFire_suse9/suse/ \

-l english

This process takes a few minutes.

Note –

If the

create_package_descr

program is not found, be sure to install the

autoyast2-utils

package.