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Current status: Two new-tube computers, one as a PXE server and the other one as a client, can run nicely.
We want to make a diskless computing system so that we need a PXE Server. PXE stands for "Pre-boot eXecution Environment". PXE is a special extension of services provided by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). It uses a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server to provide minimal boot to a network client. Let's try to configure it!
ssh username@192.168.2.30
nugraha@rsaito-necPC:~$it means that we can access the server from the client.
SELINUX=permissive !SELINUXTYP=targeted
# yum install dhcp syslinux tftp-server nfs-utils system-config-netboot
# rpm -qa | grep syslinux syslinux-2.2.2.2.2
allow booting;
allow bootp;
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.2.200 192.168.2.240;
next-server 192.168.2.30;
}
host trytube1 { # hostname
hardware ethernet 00:30:48:d4:a9:7c; # MAC address of NIC
fixed-address 192.168.2.101; # corresponding IP address
filename "/linux-install/pxelinux.0";
}
class "pxeclients" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient";
next-server 192.168.2.30;
filename "/linux-install/pxelinux.0";
}
Warning: Do not use the IP address of PXE-Client within the range 200-240.# /sbin/service dhcpd restart # chkconfig dhcpd on (the last line is for activating dhcp on booting process)
% putty username@192.168.2.30
% ipconfig -a
# default: off
# description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer \
# protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \
# workstations, download configuration files to network-aware printers, \
# and to start the installation process for some operating systems.
service tftp
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /tftpboot
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
flags = IPv4
}# service xinetd restart
# mkdir /nfsboot # mkdir /nfsboot/root
# rsync -v -a \ --exclude='/proc/*' --exclude='/sys/*' --exclude='/dev/*'\ --exclude='/media/*' --exclude='/tmp/*' --exclude='/misc/*'\ --exclude='/nfsboot/*' / /nfsboot/root
/nfsboot 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,async)
# Port rpc.mountd should listen on. #MOUNTD_PORT=892 MOUNTD_PORT=892
# system-config-firewall
# service nfs restart # cd /etc/rc5.d/ # mv K20nfs S20nfs # ./S20nfs restart Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS daemon: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS quotas: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ] Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] # ./S20nfs status rpc.mountd (pid 12153) is running... nfsd (pid 12150 12149 12148 12147 12146 12145 12144 12143) is running... rpc.rquotad (pid 12138) is running...
# system-config-netboot
Name: fedora64bit Description: fedora bla... bla... bla...
server 192.168.2.30 directory /nfsboot
IP address/subnet: 255.255.255.0 <- we use subnet information operating system: fedora64bit Other part should be as it is.
# cd /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg # mv default default.org # ln -s FFFFFF00 01-00-21-70-c9-e7-de
