Hi,
NFS Installation (RH) is a very straight forward approach to install in
all 40 machines.
Things to setup an NFS Installation
*. Install a Redhat System in One Machine first.
(Assumptions ->
+ IP Address of this machine as '200.2.1.150'
)
*. Then Boot that Machine in Linux.
*. Create a Directory called '/mnt1/7.3/'
*. Goto that Directory.
*. Mount the RH 7.3 First CD. (let say /mnt/cdrom/)
*. Copy the Contents of first CD
+ cp /mnt/cdrom/Redhat -avi /mnt1/7.3
*. Umount that CD and Mount the Second CD.
*. copy the RPMS
+ cp /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS/* /mnt1/7.3/Redhat/RPMS/
* Umount and mount the third CD.
* Again copy the RPMS
+ cp /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS/* /mnt1/7.3/Redhat/RPMS/
* Umount that CDROM.
* Export Your Directory for NFS MOUNT
+ Open the /etc/exports file
+ add the below entry into it.
=> /mnt1/7.3 200.*(ro,no_root_squash)
* Restart the NFS and Portmap
+ service nfs restart
+ service portmap restart
* Now Mount the First CD to create the RH - NFS Installation Boot Floopy.
* take a floppy and insert it
* Goto
cd /mnt/cdrom/images/
* DD the bootnet.img
dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0
* Then take this floppy to the machine where you would like to do a NFS
Installation.
* Boot from this floopy.
* From the RH Menu, choose NFS Installation.
* Provide that NFS server and Path
NFS Server is => 200.2.1.150
NFS Path is => /mnt1/7.3
* Thats it. Rest of it will be a same for all the Installation.
i've taken lot of efforts to compose this one, so don't blame me if things
goes wrong bcoz there is a plenty of chances that you can miss out
soemthing....
Regards,
S. Sukumar
1. Goto the Linux Machine where
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 07:22, Thiagarajan wrote:
Good Morning !install linux on this box from the CD.
Greetings !
Kindly tell me whether it is possible , if so explain Step by Step
reply to me personally, need not be in the list
let me explain my needs
1) i have 40 machines in win98 peer to peer
2) i have CD drive in one machine, and i have RH 7.3 all 4 disks [ 3 + 1
documentation ], it works in one machine nicely
3) i want to install linux in all machines concurrently [ with in 4 hrs iyes, but u need to copy the iso images.
can complete in all the machines ]
4) my idea is , copy the image of linux installation CDROM in to all the
computers in a folder
[ copying under win98 using simple copy option , just like keeping a copy of
cab files of win98 for reinstallation ]
5) i do not know what is ISO image ? [ Is win98 simple copy = ISO image ? ]no a directory copy wont work. mount the CD on the linux box and do the
following to get the iso image.
a) mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
b) mkisofs -o "/dirname/disk1.iso" /mnt/cdrom.
The resulting file in /dirname/disk1.iso is an iso image of the CD. Make
similar copies for all the CD and copy them to all the servers.
6) after copying into a directory, install linux from that directory [ againstart the installation by booting from a boot floppyand select the hard
using win98 environment ]
[ i can start giving installion in all the machines at a time and all the
machines will be installed concurrently ]
disk install method and select the corresponding device name and give
the directory name.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/s1-x86-begininstall-hd.html
hopefully it works. correct me if i am wrong.
having said that, this would be a very difficult process to install 40
machines this way. i would suggest to go for a network installation.
(havent tried it my self.)
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-begininstall-net.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/s1-x86-begininstall-net.html
follow the link above and setup a server on the network with the install
media. and then boot all the machines using the bootnet.img image and
point it to this servers as explained in the documentation.
hth
-balaji
