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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
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