Installing & Configuring PXEboot TFTP Server for Kickstart on RHEL or CentOS

• PXEboot TFTP Server
• Kickstart Server

yum install tftp-server -y

cat > /etc/xinetd.d/tftp << EOF

service tftp

{

        socket_type             = dgram

        protocol                = udp

        wait                    = yes

        user                    = root

        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd

        server_args             = -s /tftpboot

        disable                 = no

        per_source              = 11

        cps                     = 100 2

        flags                   = IPv4

}

EOF


cp /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/.

chmod 644 /tftpboot/pxelinux.0

mkdir /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg

cat > /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default << EOF

default install

prompt 1

display pxeboot.msg

label install

        kernel vmlinuz

        append initrd=initrd.img

label kickstart-server01

        kernel vmlinuz

        append ksdevice=eth0 console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd.img network ks=http://10.10.10.10/server01.cfg

EOF

cd /tftpboot

wget http://mirrors.atlanticmetro.net/centos/5/os/i386/isolinux/vmlinuz

wget http://mirrors.atlanticmetro.net/centos/5/os/i386/isolinux/initrd.img

wget http://mirrors.atlanticmetro.net/centos/5/os/i386/isolinux/memtest

wget http://mirrors.atlanticmetro.net/centos/5/os/i386/isolinux/boot.msg

wget http://mirrors.atlanticmetro.net/centos/5/os/i386/isolinux/splash.lss

mv boot.msg pxeboot.msg

service xinetd restart