11. Putting it all together

You now should have on one machine

• a DHCP server with IP addresses for all your client machines you are going to install
• a TFTP server running the atftpd daemon with a /tftp directory populated with
  • a bootloader program pxelinux.0,
  • a compressed Linux kernel vmlinuz-6.2,
  • a compressed Linux kernel vmlinuz-7.2,
  • an initial RAM disk initrd.img-6.2,
  • an initial RAM disk initrd.img-7.2,
  • an empty marker file Kickstart_end
  • a subdirectory pxelinux.cfg/ with three actual files:
    • default.netboot-6.2
    • default.netboot-7.2 and
    • default
    and one symlink for each client you want to install pointing to the default.netboot-6.2 or default.netboot-7.2 file
• a script running as "root" tail -n 1 -f /var/log/messages | ./PXEcfg_changer.pl

Depending on your needs, you may need only the 6.2 or the 7.2 versions of the above files.

You also need

• a Kickstart configuration file
• your Linux distribution served over the net via NFS, FTP or HTTP