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Chapter 34. PXE Network Installations
• Serial Console — This option allows use of a serial console.
• Kickstart File — The location of a kickstart file to use, such as http://server.example.com/
kickstart/ks.cfg. This file can be created with the Kickstart Configurator. Refer to
Chapter 32, Kickstart Configurator
Ignore the Snapshot name and Ethernet options. They are only used for diskless environments.
34.3.1. Command Line Configuration
If the network server is not running X, the pxeboot utility, a part of the system-config-netboot
package, can be used to add hosts which are allowed to connect to the PXE server:
pxeboot a K <kickstart> O <os-identifier> r <value> <host>
The following list explains the options:
• -a — Specifies that a host is to be added.
• -K <kickstart> — The location of the kickstart file, if available.
• -O <os-identifier> — Specifies the operating system identifier as defined in
"PXE Boot
Configuration".
• -r <value> — Specifies the ram disk size.
• <host> — Specifies the IP address or hostname of the host to add.
For more information on command line options available for the pxeboot command, refer to the
pxeboot man page.
34.4. TFTPD
34.4.1. Starting the tftp Server
On the DHCP server, verify that the tftp-server package is installed with the command rpm -q
tftp-server. If it is not installed, install it via Red Hat Network or the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD-
ROMs.
Note
For more information on installing RPM packages, refer to the Package Management
Section of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide.
tftp is an xinetd-based service; start it with the following commands:
/sbin/chkconfig ---level 345 xinetd on
/sbin/chkconfig ---level 345 tftp on
These commands configure the tftp and xinetd services to immediately turn on and also configure
them to start at boot time in runlevels 3, 4, and 5.
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for details.
Section 34.2,
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Troubleshooting
