Setting Up The Server Holding The Installation Sources - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

6 On the controlling workstation, start an SSH client and connect to the target
7 Perform the installation as described in
8 Finish the installation.
4.2 Setting Up the Server Holding the
Depending on the operating system running on the machine to use as network installation
source for SUSE Linux Enterprise, there are several options for the server configuration.
The easiest way to set up an installation server is to use YaST on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 9 or 10 orSUSE Linux 9.3 and higher. On other versions of SUSE Linux Enter-
prise Server or SUSE Linux Enterprise, set up the installation source manually.
TIP
You can even use a Microsoft Windows machine as installation server for your
Linux deployment. See
(page 56) for details.
4.2.1 Setting Up an Installation Server Using
YaST offers a graphical tool for creating network installation sources. It supports HTTP,
FTP, and NFS network installation servers.
1 Log in as root to the machine that should act as installation server.
2 Start YaST > Miscellaneous > Installation Server.
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system as described in
(page 17). Reconnect to the target system after it reboots for the final part of the
installation.
Installation Sources
Section 4.2.5, "Managing an SMB Installation Source"
YaST
Section 4.5.2, "SSH Installation"
Chapter 3, Installation with YaST
(page 75).