HP NC373F PCI-E Multifunction 1000SX Gigabit Server Adapter - Manual (Page 20)

Installation and configuration 20
• PXE network installs
The iSCSI boot target drives are installed using the following sources: driver diskette images in the
/opt/hp/iboot_install/ddimages directory; the linux-iscsi-boot source RPM on the designated iSCSI boot
install server; and the operating system installation CD-ROMs.
After the installation completes, reboot the system for an iSCSI boot to occur.
Diskette or USB install
Skip this section if you are doing a network installation, such as PXE or NFS.
Installing targets using a diskette or USB device
1. Power on the server with the first OS installation CD in the CD-ROM drive.
2. Immediately review the iSCSI option ROM messages during POST to confirm that the Option ROM
initialized successfully and is able to login onto the target disk.
3. If you are using a local CD-ROM to install then enter the following at the boot: prompt.
linux ks=floppy
Or, if you are using a USB device or Virtual Floppy then enter the following at the boot: prompt.
linux ks=hd:sda:scripts/ks.cfg
4. Insert the installation diskette, USB or virtual floppy created in "Creating an installation diskette (on
page 19)" while the system is booting from the CD. The scripts are copied into the root file system
then the scripts read the option ROM data and connect to the target disk.
5. Upon successful connection, the target disk is mounted as shown.
/dev/sda
Or, if you are using a USB device or virtual floppy drive it appears as the local disk and the target
disk is mounted as /dev/sdb.
6. If the USB device or virtual floppy is mounted on a device other than /dev/sda, the installation may
be unable to find the control file and you are prompted to provide the location. Enter the correct
location and select OK.
7. Follow the traditional installation procedure as prompted. The installation automatically sets up the
disk for iSCSI boot during post installation. After the disk is configured for iSCSI boot, the standard
OS installation screen appears and the system reboots.
NFS install
Prior to beginning the NFS install, set up the NFS server with iSCSI boot and configuration-related code
and utilities.
1. Verify that you installed the binary RPM hp-iscsi-boot on the NFS Server as described in "Installing
the binary RPM (on page 18, on page 27)."
2. Export the folder /opt/hp/hp-iscsi-boot for NFS sharing (See the NFS documentation). You may
copy the contents under /opt/hp/hp-iscsi-boot to some other folder and then NFS share that folder.
The directory structure under the NFS share folder must be the same as that of the /opt/hp/hp-iscsi-
boot directory.
3. Modify the ks.cfg control file as described in "Customizing the control file (on page 18)." Ensure that
you select NFS for COPYMETHOD and set NFSSHARE to the /opt/hp/hp-iscsi-boot directory.
4. Ensure that the OS distribution files to be installed are present on the NFS server and are exported
using NFS.
Installing targets using NFS