Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 84

3 Announce the installation source via OpenSLP, if this is supported by your net-
4.2.4 Setting Up an HTTP Installation Source
Creating an HTTP installation source is very similar to creating an NFS installation
source. HTTP installation sources can be announced over the network using OpenSLP
as well.
1 Create a directory holding the installation sources as described in
2 Configure the HTTP server to distribute the contents of your installation directory:
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e Start pure-ftpd with pure-ftpd &.
work setup:
a Create a configuration file called install.suse.ftp.reg under /etc/
slp/reg.d/ that contains the following lines:
# Register the FTP Installation Server
service:install.suse:ftp://$HOSTNAME/srv/ftp/instsource/CD1,en,65535
description=FTP Installation Source
Replace instsource with the actual name to the installation source direc-
tory on your server. The service: line should be entered as one continuous
line.
b Save this configuration file and start the OpenSLP daemon with rcslpd
start.
Manually
"Setting Up an NFS Installation Source Manually"
a Install the Web server Apache as described in
(page 752).
b Enter the root directory of the HTTP server (/srv/www/htdocs) and
create a subdirectory that will hold the installation sources:
mkdir instsource
Replace instsource with the product name.
Section 4.2.2,
(page 80).
Section 41.1.2, "Installation"