Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual page 242

19.2.1 Setup a Boot and Install Server
There are four steps to accomplish to perform this task after you installed a SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server:
To perform this type of installation, proceed as follows:
1 Set up the installation source as described in
2 Set up a TFTP server to hold a boot image that will be created in a later step.
3 Set up a DHCP server to provide IP addresses to all machines and reveal the lo-
4 Prepare the installation server PXE boot. This is described in further detail in
Note, that the actual installation process will greatly benefit if you provide enough
memory to this machine to hold the preload image in memory. Secondly, using gigabit
ethernet will speedup the deployment process considerably compared to slower networks,
if the complete network supports this.
19.2.2 Creating a Preload Image
The process of creating images with KIWI is described in
Image"
considerations should be taken into account:
• A typical preload image will use the following type:
<type primary="true" filesystem="ext3" boot="oemboot/suse-SLES11">vmx</type>
• During the setup of a preload image, the image creation process is run multiple
times. The needed repositories to build the image should be available on the local
computer.
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Server Holding the Installation Sources"
network server.
This is described in Section 11.3.2, "Setting Up a TFTP Server"
cation of the TFTP server to the target system. This is described in
"Setting Up a DHCP Server"
Section 11.3.3, "Using PXE Boot"
(page 187). However, to create a useful image for a mass deployment, several
Section 11.2, "Setting Up the
(page 126). Choose a HTTP, or FTP
(page 136).
(page 140).
(page 139).
Section 11.3.1,
Section 14.4.2, "Creating an