Installing The Service Partition (Optional); Creating A Pxe Install Image On The Pxe Server - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V60 Series Installation Manual

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Red Hat Linux 7.3 Media CD Set
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Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Resource CD
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Note – Do not connect a mouse for the installation.
Optional Item
Sun Fire V60x and V65x Server Diagnostic CD (Sun part number 705-0602), if you
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want to install the service partition. Refer to the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Server
User Guide (817-2023) for more information about the service partition.

Installing the Service Partition (Optional)

You can optionally install the service partition from the Diagnostics CD onto the Sun
Fire V60x or V65x server as the first step of the Red Hat Linux 7.3 software
installation. The service partition has utilities that might be useful. Refer to the Sun
Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server User Guide for more information about the utilities
provided by installing the service partition, and for instructions on installing it. If
you want to install the service partition, it must be installed prior to installing Red
Hat Linux 7.3 software.

Creating a PXE Install Image on the PXE Server

This procedure describes how to create a PXE install image on the same server that
is your DHCP server so that it will also act as your PXE server. The PXE server
provides the operating system files to your PXE client.
1. Insert Red Hat Linux 7.3 CD 1 into your server and copy its contents to your PXE
server, by typing the following commands:
You can use a different target directory than the /home/pxeboot/rh7.3/ directory
shown below in the examples.
# mkdir -p /home/pxeboot/rh7.3/
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp -a /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /home/pxeboot/rh7.3/
# cd /
2. When the copy operation is finished, remove CD 1 from the server after you type
the following command:
# umount /dev/cdrom
8 Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server Linux Operating System Installation Guide • September 2003