Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 99

5.1.3 Providing the Installation Data
The installation data can be provided by means of the product CDs or DVDs or using
a network installation source. If the product CDs are used as the installation source,
physical access to the client to install is needed, because the boot process needs to be
initiated manually and the CDs need to be changed.
To provide the installation sources over the network, set up a network installation
server (HTTP, NFS, FTP) as described in
Server Using YaST"
installation routines.
5.1.4 Setting Up the Boot Scenario
The client can be booted in several different ways:
Network Boot
As for a normal remote installation, autoinstallation can be initiated with Wake on
LAN and PXE, the boot image and control file can be pulled in via TFTP, and the
installation sources from any network installation server.
Bootable CD-ROM
You can use the original SUSE Linux Enterprise media to boot the system for au-
toinstallation and pull in the control file from a network location or a floppy. Alter-
natively, create your own custom CD-ROM holding both the installation sources
and the AutoYaST profile.
The following sections provide a basic outline of the procedures for network boot or
boot from CD-ROM.
Preparing for Network Boot
Network booting with Wake on LAN, PXE, and TFTP is discussed in
"Remote Installation via VNC—PXE Boot and Wake on LAN"
the setup introduced there work for autoinstallation, modify the featured PXE Linux
configuration file (/srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default) to contain the
autoyast parameter pointing to the location of the AutoYaST profile. An example
entry for a standard installation looks like this:
Section 4.2.1, "Setting Up an Installation
(page 48). Use an info file to pass the server's location to the
Section 4.1.3,
(page 43). To make
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