Friday, January 4, 2008

rhel5 nfs install

I have an NFS share with ISOs [1]. When installing a RHEL4 system the boot disk offers to use an NFS source. I am then able to bring up eth0, mount the NFS server and complete the install with one CD. RHEL5 is different and doesn't have a KickStart CD. However, you can achieve the same effect by booting from the first CD with "linux askmethod". The installer will will then prompt for the NFS server details.

Footnote:

[1]

# mount -t nfs nas0.prd.domain.tld:/isos /mnt/isos/
# ls /mnt/isos/datastore1/rhel* 
/mnt/isos/datastore1/rhel4u4_i386:
RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc1.iso  RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc4.iso
RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc2.iso  RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc5.iso
RHEL4-U4-i386-ES-disc3.iso

/mnt/isos/datastore1/rhel4u4_x86_64:
RHEL4-U4-x86_64-ES-disc1.iso  RHEL4-U4-x86_64-ES-disc4.iso
RHEL4-U4-x86_64-ES-disc2.iso  RHEL4-U4-x86_64-ES-disc5.iso
RHEL4-U4-x86_64-ES-disc3.iso

/mnt/isos/datastore1/rhel5u1_i386:
rhel-5-server-i386-disc1.iso  rhel-5-server-i386-disc4.iso
rhel-5-server-i386-disc2.iso  rhel-5-server-i386-disc5.iso
rhel-5-server-i386-disc3.iso

/mnt/isos/datastore1/rhel5u1_x86_64:
rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc1.iso  rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc5.iso
rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc2.iso  rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc6.iso
rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc3.iso  rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc7.iso
rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc4.iso

/mnt/isos/datastore1/rhel-5-x86-64:
rhel-5-server-x86_64-disc1.iso  rhel-5-server-x86_64-disc4.iso
rhel-5-server-x86_64-disc2.iso  rhel-5-server-x86_64-disc5.iso
rhel-5-server-x86_64-disc3.iso
# 

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