Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V40z - Manual (Page 29)

Chapter 3 Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Software 23
15. Set up the content and media directories by typing the following commands:
# ln -s sles8-x86_64/CD1/content .
# ln -s sles8-x86_64/CD1/media.1 .
16. Set up the appropriate content and instorder files by typing the following
commands:
# mkdir yast
# cp /tmp/sles8-pxefiles/order yast/
# cp /tmp/sles8-pxefiles/instorder yast/
17. Copy the autoinst.xml file from the /tmp/sles8-pxefiles/ directory to the
root of the PXE image by typing the following commands:
# cp /tmp/sles8-pxefiles/autoinst.xml \
/home/pxeboot/SunFire_sles8/
18. On your PXE server, modify and save the file
/home/pxeboot/pxelinux.cfg/default to add the following entry to it:
Type the text block from append through autoinst.xml as one continuous string
with no returns.
default SunFire_sles8
label SunFire_sles8
kernel SunFire_sles8 /boot/loader/linux
append textmode=1
initrd=SunFire_sles8/boot/loader/initrd
install=nfs:/home/pxeboot/SunFire_sles8 insmod=bcm5700
autoyast=nfs:// n.n.n.n /home/pxeboot/SunFire_sles8/autoinst.xml
Where n.n.n.n is the IP address of your PXE server.
Note – For console-based installations, add console=ttyS0,19200 to the append
line.
19. Copy the Ethernet and SCSI RPMs into the proper directory by typing the
following command:
# cp /tmp/ sles8-pxefiles/ *.x86_64.rpm \
/home/pxeboot/SunFire_sles8/sles8-x86_64/CD1/suse/x86_64/