HP NC373F PCI-E Multifunction 1000SX Gigabit Server Adapter - Manual (Page 30)

Installation and configuration 30
NFS install
Prior to beginning the NFS install, set up the NFS server with iSCSI boot and configuration-related code
and utilities.
Setting up NFS
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 autoinst.xml control file as described in "Customizing the control file (on page 27)."
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
1. Power on the server with the first OS installation CD in the CD-ROM drive. 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.
2. Select Installation at the first screen and pass the following boot options:
autoyast= nfs://<nfs ip>://opt/hp/hp-iscsi-boot/scripts/autoinst.xml
install=nfs://<nfs ip>://<path-to-OS-distro-dir>
3. On some servers, the installation returns the following message:
Error - no hard disks and no hard disk controllers were found for this
installation. Check your hardware.
Ignore this message and select OK. 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 Autoyast installation, see the SUSE manuals for auto-installation using
Autoyast.
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.