HP NC373F PCI-E Multifunction 1000SX Gigabit Server Adapter - Manual (Page 21)

Installation and configuration 21
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. At the boot: prompt type the following:
linux ks=nfs:<nfs ip>:/opt.hp/hp-iscsi-boot/scripts/ks.cfg
install=nfs://<nfs ip>://<path-to-OS-distro-dir>
The modules from the install image are pulled through NFS and copied into memory, the scripts read
the option ROM data and connect to the target disk.
Upon successful connection, the target disk is mounted as shown.
/dev/sda
4. If you have any SCSI local disks attached then those are listed first as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and so
on. The iSCSI target disk is listed last as /dev/sdc, for example. Make sure that you select the iSCSI
target disk (/dev/sdc) for partitioning and not the local disk.
5. After the modules are successfully loaded, the installation continues by pulling sources from NFS
server. For customizing the ks.cfg file for Kickstart installations see the Red Hat manuals for Auto-
installation using Kickstart.
PXE install
If the system to be installed contains a network adapter card with Pre-Execution Environment (PXE)
support, then direct install over PXE is possible.
Setting up PXE
The following steps must be performed to prepare for a PXE installation:
1. Configure the NFS server to export the installation source.
2. Configure the TFTP server required for PXE booting.
3. Start or enable the TFTP service.
4. Configure DHCP.
These steps are not described in this guide. See your vendor's respective documentation for details.
5. Configure the NFS server to export the install diskette image of the iSCSI boot and configuration-
related code and utilities. See "NFS install (on page 20)."
6. Execute the following command on the PXE server.
# vi /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default
7. Add the following lines to this file:
label <number>
kernel <path-to-OS-distro-dir>/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
append initrd=<path-to-OS-distro-dir>/images/pxeboot/\
initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 ks=nfs:<nfs ip>:/opt/hp/\
hp-iscsi-boot/scripts/ks.cfg
8. Optionally, you can modify /tftpboot/linux-install/msgs/boot.msg to use custom boot messages.
Installing targets using PXE
1. Power up the server.
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. When prompted, press <F12> for PXE installation.