Burning an ISO so it’s bootable Once you have the ISO downloaded, you may need to do some additional preparations. If you are installing using a USB device, simply copying the file to a flash drive will not work, as the ISO is not actually unpacked on the media. If the ISO is not correctly […]
Category: Serving up the boot – TFTPD
Arm’ing for the future of IT – it’s not just a slice of Raspberry Pi 2 – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Getting ready Before you start, you will need a Raspberry Pi with a Micro SD slot. You also will need a Micro SD card that can be used to install the OS. If you are using a Raspberry Pi compute module, or an enterprise Arm server such as an Ampere system, jump to Chapter 2 […]
Migrating from CentOS to Oracle Linux – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Migrating from CentOS to Oracle Linux The first question is why? Why are we talking about moving from CentOS to Oracle Linux? Before we explain this, let’s chat a little bit about the surprise that IBM Red Hat dropped on the Linux community on December 8, 2020. CentOS as we know it is dead! It […]
CentOS is dead as we know it, have you looked at Oracle Linux yet? 2 – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Getting ready Before you start, you will need a system running Scientific Linux 7.x and 8.x, Rocky 8.x, and CentOS 7.x and 8.X. If your CentOS system is CentOS Stream, the script will not work. There are a few other things to think about before running the Oracle script, as follows: How to do it… […]
Automating the OS install options with kickstart – Installing with and without Automation Magic
Automating the OS install options with kickstart The kickstart file is one of the most important parts of the automated install process. This file contains all the information required to automatically install and configure the OS. The kickstart file is a simple text file that contains the directions to allow an unattended installation. Getting ready […]
DHCP server – more than just IPs – Installing with and without Automation Magic
DHCP server – more than just IPs The DHCP server will be running a standard DHCP server that is available with Oracle Linux 8. Installation of DHCP is straightforward. Getting ready To set up a DHCP server, you will need an Oracle Linux 8 VM running on the same subnet that VMs that will be […]
Serving up the boot – TFTPD – Installing with and without Automation Magic
Serving up the boot – TFTPD TFTP is used for simple file transfers over the network. This is most often used to load the initial bootloader for an OS, or some firmware updates for embedded devices and older hardware. In the context of the PXE server, the TFTP system is used for the initial bootloader. […]
Back in the day – a manual installation – Installing with and without Automation Magic
Back in the day – a manual installation Automated installations are great, but for some admins, the complexity of configuring and maintaining the infrastructure to support an automated installation is more effort than doing a manual installation. This recipe will go over how the manual installation works. Getting ready To do this, you will need […]
Back in the day – a manual installation 2 – Installing with and without Automation Magic
How it works… A manual boot process is fairly simple to do. Once booted, on the INSTALLATION SUMMARY screen, you have many options: Generally, the first setting that is set is the network. This is key for not only network installations but also setting up NTP for time synchronization: Figure 2.21 – Setting hostname and […]
Appendix – kickstart options – Installing with and without Automation Magic
Appendix – kickstart options The following table covers the most popular options that control the installation and their syntax: Option Name authselect Description It configures the authentication options for the system using the authselect command. authselect options are the same as the authselect command. They are passed directly to the command. Options See […]