Kickstart, PXE Boot, Installation, Linux, RHEL5

1. Implementationof Central Data Centre Architecture for LMS(Case Study) Installation & Configuration Linux Operating System (Fedora 9) Rajan Sharma

2. Problem Identification Need of Centralized Data Center C.R.I.S. – Loco Shed Management System ERP Implementation

3. Objective Installation & Configuration of Operating System. Linux

4. Scope Linux Manual Installation & Configuration Network Installation Automated Installation (using kickstart) Local Media (CD/DVD) Network (http/NFS)

5. Process Flow Diagram

6. Prerequisites Installation Disk Boot Disk (Shared Directory) Apache (Web Server/httpd) DNS (For Name Resolution/named) DHCP (For Automatic IP assigment/dhcpd)

7. Manual Vs Automated Installation Manual Requires User Input Time Consuming One by One Automated Less/No User Input Less Time consuming Simultaneously

8. Kickstart File Simple text file List of items Required at the time of installation Identified by Keyword Possible Locations On a boot disk. On the network share NFS Server. http Server.

9. Components

10. Sample KickstartFile

11. Further Scope Fully Automated Installation PXE Boot (Pre Execution Environment) Network Boot without Boot Disk Diskless /Thin Clients OS Image on Server

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