Kickstart Installation:Server End
Setting up install server for network installations
Before working with Kickstart files we should learn to prepare the install server, from where the clients will receive the operating system files. If you have LAN connectivity from your client computer to that computer which has around 3.5 GB of free disk space and offers FTP or NFS or Web service, then you can make it an install server.
For FTP or HTTP install you will have to copy the files from installation CD to the directory that you make available to the network. As there are four CDs in Red Hat Linux distribution so you have to copy the contents of all the CDs (4 CDs of ELES4 or 1 DVD of ELES5) in the same directory on server’s hard disk. The same is being shown here :
# mkdir /home/redhat
# mount /mnt/cdrom with first CD inserted
If you have DVD drive then you may use the following path, but I shall be using CD in rest of the example.
# mount /media/cdrecorder with first CD inserted
# cp –ar /mnt/cdrom/* /home/redhat
# umount /mnt/cdrom then eject the cd
# mount /mnt/cdrom with second CD inserted
# cp –ar /mnt/cdrom/* /home/redhat
# umount /mnt/cdrom then eject the cd
# mount /mnt/cdrom with third CD inserted
# cp –ar /mnt/cdrom/* /home/redhat
# umount /mnt/cdrom then eject the cd
Simply type y, when it asks to overwrite few files.
Preparing install server using disk images:
Instead of copying all files from the three installation disks, we can copy the images of each of the three disks to our hard disk for NFS or hard disk install. For doing this, insert the CDs one by one and type following commands (assuming that the directory is already created):
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/redhat/disk1.iso with first CD inserted
# umount /mnt/cdrom then eject the cd
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/redhat/disk2.iso with second CD inserted
# umount /mnt/cdrom then eject the cd
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/redhat/disk3.iso with third CD inserted
# umount /mnt/cdrom then eject the cd
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