4.2. Finish Configuring the Diskless Environment
To use the graphical version of the Network Booting Tool, you must be running the X Window System, have root privileges, and have the
system-config-netboot
RPM package installed. To start the Network Booting Tool from the desktop, go to (the main menu on the
panel) => => => . Or, type the command system-config-netboot
at a shell prompt (for example, in an XTerm or a GNOME terminal).
If starting the Network Booting Tool for the first time, select from the First Time Druid. Otherwise, select => from the pull-down menu, and then click .
A wizard appears to step you through the process:
- Clickon the first page.
- On the Diskless Identifier page, enter a Name and Description for the diskless environment. Click .
- Enter the IP address or domain name of the NFS server configured in Section 4.1, “Configuring the NFS Server” as well as the directory exported as the diskless environment. Click .
- The kernel versions installed in the diskless environment are listed. Select the kernel version to boot on the diskless system.
- Clickto finish the configuration.
After clicking
, the diskless kernel and image file are created based on the kernel selected. They are copied to the PXE boot directory /tftpboot/linux-install/<os-identifier>/
. The directory snapshot/
is created in the same directory as the root/
directory (for example, /diskless/i386/RHEL4-AS/snapshot/
) with a file called files
in it. This file contains a list of files and directories that must be read/write for each diskless system. Do not modify this file. If additional entries must be added to the list, create a files.custom
file in the same directory as the files
file, and add each additional file or directory on a separate line.