1855 - DSA via PXE [Scanned]

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 05:45:42PM +0100, Carl Pickering wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
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> Thanks for your reply. Which version of DSA did that work with? I've
> downloaded the latest version 8.10.. We've passed the Stage3 information
> to the append line previous to submitting to the list, but it then stops
> and asks for CD roms.. Hence asking if I could get it to read from
> locally stored ISO files.

In the directory you have the DSA CD copied to on your server, create a
"source/" subdirectory. Drop your ISO files there and they will be
automatically detected. This should be at the same level where you have
the "dsa/", "server_assistant/" and "isolinux/" subdirectories.

--
Michael "Former DSA Lead Engineer and the guy who implemented this" Brown


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> Thanks.
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> Carl
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> From: Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com [mailto:Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com] 
> Sent: 11 May 2007 17:43
> To: Carl Pickering; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: RE: 1855 - DSA via PXE [Scanned]
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> This is the only way I was able to get this to work.
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> Add the following to your append statement: Stage3_type=network
> Stage3_mount_type=nfs Stage3_opts=nolock
> Stage3_source=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/path/to/expanded/DSA/image
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> Now add a source directory in the DSA image directory and put your ISO's
> here. I've got them in a format like RHEL4-x86_64-AS-disc1.iso or
> RHEL4-i386-i386-AS-disk1.iso.
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> I have no idea if this is officially supported or not so your mileage
> may vary. 
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> I've found it much easier just to inject the necessary drivers into my
> initrd's and kickstart scripts. This took a long time to figure out and
> the only reason I did it was because I needed to install windows as well
> as linux.
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> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Carl Pickering
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:40 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: PE:1855 - DSA via PXE 
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> Hi,
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> Has anyone successfully had DSA running and allowing installation of an
> OS, primarily RHEL from PXE?
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> I can get the DSA to start using PXE, but when it comes to installing
> the OS, its requesting CD's. Which, naturally would be fine, but my CD's
> are ISO images on the PXE server.. Is there a way to pass to the DSA
> that it should use locally housed ISO images instead of real physical
> CD's. Otherwise, i'd have to change CD's etc, and I'd rather not do
> that.
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> I can get another PXE system to boot RHEL, mount and install from my
> PXE, but I wan't the drivers for my hardware.. Infact are these stored
> on the CD somewhere, and I can put them on a PXE server, and have ks.cfg
> wget them, and install?
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> Thanks
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> Carl
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