Installing RHEL From Distribution Media ............................................................................... 34
Updating RHEL ............................................................................................................................ 36
Booting From OS Distribution Media .............................................................................................. 37
How to Boot From OS Media Locally ........................................................................................ 37
How to Boot From OS Distribution Media or ISO File Remotely .......................................... 38
Conguring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation ............................................................... 41
Overview of PXE Servers ............................................................................................................. 42
How to Install and Congure a DHCP Server .......................................................................... 42
How to Install Portmap on Your DHCP Server ....................................................................... 44
How to Congure the TFTP Service on Your DHCP Server .................................................. 45
How to Install and Congure the neopxe Boot Server Daemon ............................................ 46
How to Congure the NFS Service on Your PXE Server ......................................................... 47
Disabling the Firewall .................................................................................................................. 49
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle Enterprise Linux .................................. 50
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Red Hat Linux ................................................... 51
Creating a PXE Image for SUSE Linux ...................................................................................... 53
How to Install Linux From a PXE Server ................................................................................... 55
Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Conguration ......... 57
SUSE Linux – How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While
Installing the OS ........................................................................................................................... 57
RHEL – How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing
the OS ............................................................................................................................................ 59
Index ......................................................................................................................................................61
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