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How to configure PXE Server in RHEL 6 ?

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In the disk label option choose the first option (Initialize the disk label). The partitions that I have created are like this. Mount Point /boot swap / type ext4 swap ext4 size 500 2048 18000
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Make sure that SELinux option is disabled and Security level is set to Disable firewall.
Save the ks.cfg file to the filesystem.
Yum install y syslinux xinetd tftp-server dhcp httpd # Install all the required packages through yum mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /var/lib/tftpboot/ vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp # Open the xinetd settings to enable tftp server. # at line 14 set the parameter to no from yes. Disable=no service xinetd restart # Restart the service to apply the settings made. chkconfig xinetd on # set the service to start with each subsequent system reboots.
vi /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
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# Open the file and configure the DHCP Server.
# Global Options Allow booting; Allow bootp; authoritative; # Subnet definition subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { # Parameters for the local subnet option routers 192.168.0.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option domain-name example.com; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; default-lease-time 21600; max-lease-time 43200; # Client IP range range dynamic-bootp 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200; filename pxelinux.0; next-server 192.168.0.70; } # Here the nextsever parameter is the address of the kickstart server. service dhcpd restart Chkconfig dhcpd on # restart the service and make it permanent. mkdir p /var/pxe/rhel6 mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/rhel6 # make some required directories. Insert your RHEL 6 dvd mount /dev/cdrom # Mount it to /mnt /mnt
ls l /mnt # Check the contents to see if it is properly mounted. cp ivr /mnt/* /var/pxe/rhel6 # copy all the contents to the /var/pxe/rhel6 directory. umount /mnt eject # after the file copy operation unmount and eject the dvd. cp /var/pxe/rhel6/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz /var/lib/tftpboot/rhel6 cp /var/pxe/rhel6/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /var/lib/tftpboot/rhel6 # copy the vmlinuz and initrd.img files to the tftpboot directory. cp /usr/share/syslinux/menu.c32 # copy the menu file. /var/lib/tftpboot/
vi /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default timeout 100 default menu.c32 menu title $$$$$$Boot Menu$$$$$$ label 1 menu label ^ 1) RHEL6 kernel rhel6/vmlinuz append initrd=rhel6/initrd.img # Prepare the boot menu.
ks=http://192.168.0.70/ks/ks.cfg
ksdevice=eth0
chkconfig httpd on vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/pxeboot.conf
# create new entry Alias /rhel6 /var/pxe/rhel6
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Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/24 # Ip address you allow
service httpd restart (ignore the domain name error if it occurs.) # Prepare the httpd server
mkdir /var/www/html/ks cp /ks.cfg /var/www/html/ks/ks.cfg chmod 644 /var/www/html/ks/ks.cfg # make the directory and copy the kickstart file to it. # and make the kickstart file globally read only.
The pxe server is ready. Plug a computer into the network and boot it through LAN using pxe. The client pc should have a display as below.
Posted by Ajay Singh Chandi at 3:41 PM Labels: Linux, RHEL 6, Tutorial
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17 comments:
Joe January 10, 2012 at 10:36 PM MAN!!! u people are awesome was searching for some easy method for configuring PXE boot on RHEL 6. wat so ever i got before this was hell confusing but you gave me easy n interactive method..... thankx a ton n hats off to u... Reply
Anonymous January 18, 2012 at 6:08 AM Awesome .. short and sweet ... A perfect quick start guide for PXE deployment Reply Replies Anonymous July 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM I followed the above procedure to configure on my RHEL6.2 Machine. I am unable to boot through PXE. Its giving error: PXE-E18: Server Response timeout What should i do? Please reply
Ajay Singh Chandi
July 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM
I think that you are booting through a client which is using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) instead of BIOS interface. From Wikipedia - "The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI is meant as a replacement for the BIOS firmware interface." If you can give me the Client and Server Model/Make details i may be able to help you out. Reply
Anonymous January 26, 2012 at 7:55 PM hey bro why have you stopped adding rhel 6 tuts??? please add more tuts Reply
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Unknown July 15, 2012 at 11:58 AM Awesome.......A perfect quick start guide for PXE deployment. Reply
ajai July 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM Hi.. I getting "TFTP open timeout" error Reply Replies Ajay Singh Chandi July 28, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Did you specify the "next-server 192.168.0.70;" option while configuring the dhcpd.conf file?
Anonymous February 10, 2013 at 6:23 PM If it is REDHAT 6 pls disable iptables and try.-pavan Reply
Anonymous September 4, 2012 at 8:22 AM hi friends please anyone help that dhcp configuration step... first am i want copy sample file from /usr/share/doc/dhcp-4.1.1/dhcpd.conf.sample? .... after copy file when i edit it global option not available...pls Reply
Anonymous October 6, 2012 at 2:09 AM I would like to add a comment in the above config as i faced a issue while installing with the above procedure.
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/pxeboot.conf Alias /rhel6 /var/pxe/rhel6 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks #Order Deny,Allow #Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/24 Reply
Renjith K.M. November 1, 2012 at 2:11 PM Simply awesome! Nothing else to say!!! :) Reply
Anonymous November 21, 2012 at 6:07 PM Thank you a lot ......... Reply
Anonymous November 22, 2012 at 8:45 AM My linux teacher is a dumbass this helps me a lot.... Reply
Anonymous December 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM If you copy and paste directly form this tutorial, you may get unexpected results and different types of double quotes are used that Linux may not expect. Also 99% of commands start with lower case so if some of them fail while you follow along, you know why. This is done for proper sentence structure in the tutorial. GREAT tutorial! Just a heads up to any new Linux users out there. Reply
Anonymous January 11, 2013 at 5:47 AM Hats off to you Sir.... Reply
Anonymous March 5, 2013 at 11:04 PM hi I have done all step but I m restart the httpd service that time syntax error showing with /etc/httpd/conf.d/pxeboot.conf allow not allowed here. Reply
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