General :: How To Network Install Using NFS Server
Jan 21, 2011
i want to do linux installation on client machine from server.
i configured NFS server. i actually installed all 5 CD's to one directory. these are not iso images.
i created directory /serverimage and inside this i created directory for each linux cd. i.e linuxcd1, linuxcd2 and so on ..
now my directory structure is :
cd /serverimage
ls
linuxcd1
linuxcd2
linuxcd3
linuxcd4
linuxcd5
now i exported /serverimage in /etc/exports
but when i boot my client machine with the first linux cd. and using linux askmethod
i selected NFS. i entered ip address for nfs server and directory as /serverimage
but it is not taking. saying unable to mount.
shall i create .iso images. i dont want to use .iso images since i want to configure yum repository later once client is installed. i dont know if yum repository can be installed using iso images on the server. so i just copied cdrom to directories to share it via nfs.
I'm trying to install Fedora 14 on my netbook using a network PXE server on my laptop. I can see in the syslog, that initrd.img and vmlinuz get sent over tftp. The problem seems to be in my kernel parameters:
LABEL fedora14-EFI-boot-i386 kernel /images/fedora14-EFI-boot-i386/vmlinuz0 MENU LABEL fedora14-EFI-boot-i386 append initrd=/images/fedora14-EFI-boot-i386/initrd0.img ksdevice=bootif lang= kssendmac text ks=http://192.168.2.1/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/fedora14-EFI-boot-i386 selinux=0 ipappend 2
On booting up the netbook it can't find a root device. I'm not sure what to specify for the root= because I have deleted all the partitions on /dev/sda. I did this because originally it kept booting up the old OS, and I assumed there was a way to format the disk as part of the install. I'm stuck now and was hoping someone with more experience of bootloaders might be able to help. If possible I'd like to do this using the network rather than a usb.
I have an opensuse 11.3 install which I want to set up as a network boot server to install Solaris 10 on a Sun Ultra 10 client. According to what I've read, this requires rarpd and tftpd which I've set up on opensuse, but also bootparamd which I can't find for 11.3. It seems it was last included with opensuse 9.2. Does anyone know if it's available, if I could use the suse 9.2 version, or any alternative?
I've been attempting to setup PXE/HTTP network installs so we can better handle deployments for new systems. I have a test CentOS 5.4 VM running, and another test VM that I want to deploy 5.4 to. TFTP, DHCP are all working correctly. Apache 2.2.3 config "seems" OK. When I kick off the VM which I will install to, DHCP discovery and IP allocation works, the TFTP server is found, I am presented with a menu option of OS selection.
I choose #1, for my 5.4 but then it immediately tells me: "Invalid or corrupt kernel image"
/var/log/messages doesnt show anything other than the DHCP OFFER/ACK process and that TFTP client doesn't accept options /var/log/httpd/error_log doesnt show anything either Not sure where else to look for diagnosis. My Apache config directory: /var/www/html/CentOS
My Apache DocumentRoot: /var/www/html/CentOS Directives: <Directory "/var/www/html/CentOS"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Forgot to add this line from my pxelinux.cfg/default file: label 1 kernel 5.4/vmlinuz append initrd=5.4/initrd.img ramdisk_size=16000 method=http:/10.37.129.3/CentOS ip=dhcp
(I think I have found my problem.. 5.4 was in the TFTPBOOT directory, but now that I'm using HTTP, I changed this to be: kernel CentOS/vmlinuz and append initrd=CentOS/initrd.img) -- question is, will just changing this work?
I was asked to install a mail server for the company I work for 'cause the mail fowarding service is getting pretty expensive. As an openSUSE user I decided to use my beloved distro for that task rather than a Windows 2003 Server. I want to avoid using MS Windows OS and use openSUSE so I can introduce this "new" technology to the company. I have the evil () plan to progressively migrate from MS Windows to Linux and this is an excelent opportunity for showing what is Linux capable of. Unfortunately I'm a rooky Linux admin and I could not get any satisfactory results yet. For testing purposes I managed to point an MX record to an static ip address (200.69.219.57) using No-Ip service. I've tested it using dig unitan.sytes.net MX command.
Then I installed openSUSE using 3 hdd, 1 for system files and directories and 2 setting up a RAID 1 array mounted under /var directory because I've read that there is where the e-mails will be stored. I've followed a couple of documents presented in these forums to no avail. I did install the system using LDAP but I could not get/install/create any certificate so users could not authenticate (Dovecot said so)
loss password to network. when trying to login to a local Server it tries to Authenticate from the network. Can anyone tell me how to change it back to a local Authentication or to reset network password.
I have installed Ubuntu Server x64 in a VM (VMWare workstation) but have limited knowledge. Does anyone have steps on installing and configuring NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) on an Ubuntu server? I would like to set this VM up like a NAS box so I can do some NDMP backup testing.
I have a VM running Fedora 17 on VMWare over windows 7. I want to SSH to my university server from fedora but when I try something like: ssh myuser@server.com
I don't get request for my password. If I try to SSH using PuTTY in windows, everything is OK. Then I pinged the server and got the following message: From 192.168.0.106: icmp_seq=2 Redirect Network(New nexthop: 192.168.0.1)
It repeated over and over. I tried NAT and Bridged network connection on the VM, but I'm not sure what this means completely, so I may have messed up somewhere around here.
This may or may not be an easy question, as I'm somewhat uninformed in the networking side of computer science. I own a rented server with a static ip address. Is there a way that I can forward requests from it to my computer to setup a LAN network of sorts over the internet. Specifically, there is a program I would like to use that requires LAN (you enter an IP to connect to). Is it possible to setup my server in a way that users could connect to my server's ip, which would then forward it to my home computer (I'm fine with setting up my home computer with programs that would allow this) that could host?
can some one advise either on linux or windows, server/network manage software.say each server we can watch the cpu,memory,network card in/out speed, overload etc, any warning.
I am sitting in front of a suse server computer and i have to install php-mysql package in this server.When i am doing that through yast it is asking for the cd of suse.I have that cd but i cannot connect the cdrom to that server.The cdrom is connected to another PC which i can also access.Is there anyway to install that package using the cdrom connected to other PC.
In my case, it occurs intermittently when trying to connect using putty's command line client 'plink.exe' to a linux machine using ssh. For some testing purposes, a linux server is setup with 8K virtual ip addresses and the testing scripts will connect to these ip addresses through ssh using plink.exe. There will be concurrently 25 ssh sessions launched to the server. While it works for sometimes, it throws 'server unexpectedly closed network connection' error intermittently. If the same ip address is tried again manually, it works. While the ssh server is accepting connections, this error is thrown sometimes and unable to find out the reason from the logs. It is not that the ssh connection is completely blocked. It gives this error message while connecting to some of the virtual ip addresses but works some times.
The hosts.deny, sshd_config are tuned to allow the connections, allow more sessions etc.
How to connect my mysql database server from outside network. because its locally works and i cant able to connect from outside and different networks. when i try i am getting like this error.
ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on '123.136.126.179' (113)
It it possible to setup a bind server for my internal network at home? Currently, all clients DNS requests go to my Verizon FIOS router, which also acts as a DHCP server. I would like to setup a another DNS server using BIND for studing.
Current setup:
Client --> Router (DNS Server) --> Internet
New BIND server setup:
Client --> BIND Server (2nd DNS) --> Router (Primary DNS) --> Internet
How would I go ab this? Would I have to configure a cache naming DNS server?
My Suse server is failing to boot and it is giving the following error:
Mellanox ConnectX Boot over IB v1.9.972 gPXE 0.9.6+ -- Open Source Boot Firmware -- [URL] No more network devices I have two network interfaces Infiniband network and the Ethernet network. It is a x6275 Sun server.
I have RedHat 5.2 iso files shared on my Windows XP Desktop and IP of my pc is 192.168.8.57,and i want to install RHEL 5.2 on totally balnk server (i.e . server has nothing installed in it)
so is it possible to install RHEL 5.2 form Netowrk? if it is yesthen please tell me how can i do this...
I have installed fedora 14 on a spare computer for a home server using Amahi ( it's the beta version).During the install i did something regarding the network config, what, i do not know,i have been trying to access the remainder of the Amahi setup but have no network. This was a week passed,i have read anything i can get on the network config and have tried plenty (still trying to figure /etc). I have tried some of the fixes descibed in these threads. When i do connect the ethernet cable to the router (which has a win 7 OS box already connected)i loose all internet connectivity from the rest of the house (2 wireless laptops & win7 box). What am I doing wrong?
I am just checking in I know a lil about linux looking to learn more I know forums are the best way to go. I recently installed centos 5.3 on a machine we are going to be using as a squid server. Just a couple quick ?s and just wanted to pick your alls brains. What I am trying to do with the server is use it for caching to speed up our network t but I don't want to go around to all the our customers to setup their browser for proxy. What all is involved with making this server completely transparent. So the end user will does not need to enter in proxy information.
I am using CentOS 5.5 OS. I already install ntfs-3g rpm, but I don't know the command to mount network NTFS drive. I also want to mount it on my fstab file, so whenever it reloads, it can automatically mount on the specific folder.
Linux Server automatically reboots when i plug in the network cable.it was working fine till 2 days back and no changes were made to it.any light on this note pls? kindly confirm if any logs are required for the discussion!
I am trying to route a security video server which is inside my network to the internet. my network is two interface eth0 (internet network xxx.xxx.xxx.198 and internal network 192.168.5.1
Recently upgraded from FC11 to FC12, and lost the ability to print to my network printer. Couldn't figure it out, though I can continue to print from an old FC9 server, so I know it's not the print server, Netgear PS110 or the printer Samsung ML-2510. In desperation, I upgraded to FC13, and still no dice. Don't think it's a network problem as I've tried with a disabled local firewall (I'm behind a network firewall) and even disabled SELinux.
If I go through system-config-printer, I probe for network printers, and can discover the print server, but the queue is wrong (it has two ports, P1 and P2.) Neither PASSTHRU or manually written P1, the connected port, work. It will spool, then disappear. I'm using the Samsung ML-2150 Driver which I understand works for this printer and used to work on FC9, because the printer is not listed directly in CUPS' database.
I seccessfully install RHEL 05. But it do not show lan and not connect to other computer. My LAN adapter is realtek rtl8169 gigabit ethernet adapter.Please tell me how can download its driver and how can install.
First, (for samba) how do I determine whether my computer "gets IP address information from a dhcp server on the network," and whether "the dhcp server provides info about WINS servers ("NetBIOS name servers") present on the network," and consequently whether a change to my smb.conf file, "so that DHCP-provided WINS settings will automatically be read from /etc/samba/dhcp.conf," and whether the dhcp3-client package must be installed?
