Linux Deployment Server Files

Configure Services

These files are basically all you need to run a Linux deployment server. There are 3 directories, each used by a separate service in the provisioning process:

Host the following files:

1. ./mirror: Host via NFS

2. ./pxelinux: Host via TFTP. Once Hosted set the correct IP in your DHCP server

3. ./ftp: Host via FTP. Once Hosted set the correct IP of the FTP server in ./pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg/default.

Generate Needed Files to Host

0. Edit Makefile

You can edit the first 3 arguments in the Makefile to avoid passing parameters to make on the command line.

LINUX_DISTRO := RHEL
DISTRO_RELEASE := 9.2
ISO_FILENAME := rhel-baseos-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso

Edit these 3 values (assuming ISO_FILENAME is the name of a file in the ./iso directory) and you can just type

make pxelinux
make bootimgs
make osrepo

1. Copy PXE Loaders

The following really only needs to be done once. The rest of the steps you will repeat with each ISO you create (of the same architecture, e.g. x86_64)

make ISO_FILENAME=rhel-baseos-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso pxelinux

Will create the following files:

pxelinux/pxelinux.0
pxelinux/menu.c32
pxelinux/ldlinux.c32
pxelinux/libutil.c32
pxelinux/libcom32.c32

These are the bootloaders needed to run the PXE boot and load pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg/default

2. Copy Boot Images

make ISO_FILENAME=rhel-baseos-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso LINUX_DISTRO=RHEL DISTRO_RELEASE=9.1 bootimgs

Will create the following files:

pxelinux/images/RHEL-9.1/vmlinuz
pxelinux/images/RHEL-9.1/initrd.img

This will create the boot images needed for whatever OS is fed in in the ISO argument. For example if rhel-baseos-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso

3. Copy OS Repostitory

make ISO_FILENAME=rhel-baseos-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso LINUX_DISTRO=RHEL DISTRO_RELEASE=9.1 osrepo

This will clone the installation DVD to the ./mirror directory such that there is a file structure resemebling the following:

mirror/RHEL-9.1/AppStream
mirror/RHEL-9.1/BaseOS
mirror/RHEL-9.1/EFI
mirror/RHEL-9.1/EULA
mirror/RHEL-9.1/GPL
mirror/RHEL-9.1/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-beta
mirror/RHEL-9.1/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
mirror/RHEL-9.1/extra_files.json
mirror/RHEL-9.1/images
mirror/RHEL-9.1/isolinux
mirror/RHEL-9.1/media.repo

Edit Configuration Files

Edit pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg/default

You’ll now want to go in and add the boot options for the new OS you just added.

Edit ks.cfg

Go in and add your desired password and configuration in the kickstart files.