User guide

Appendix D Booting the Supplemental CD from a PXE Server D-3
5. Download the MEMDISK kernel.
a. Go to the latest SYSLINUX project web site at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
b. Save the latest syslinux-version.zip file to your root directory.
Where version is the latest SYSLINUX project version. Version 3.11 is the latest
version at the time of this writing.
6. Unzip the file:
For example:
# unzip syslinux-3.09.zip
7. Change to the memdisk directory.
For example:
# cd /syslinux-3.09/memdisk
8. Copy the memdisk kernel to the new Sun Fire X2100 Server Supplemental
Directory created in Step 3.
For example:
# cp /syslinux-3.09/memdisk/memdisk /tftpboot/linux-install/suppl_aq
9. Edit the Boot Message Screen as follows:
a. Open the boot.msg file in a text editor.
For example:
# vi /tftpboot/linux-install/msgs/boot.msg
b. Add the following line after 0-Local Machine.
suppl_aq - Sun Fire X2100 Server Supplemental CD
c. Save and close the boot.msg file.
10. Edit the default PXE Configuration file as follows:
a. Open the default file in a text editor.
For example:
# vi /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default
b. Add the following lines after the label0 section:
label suppl_aq
kernel suppl_aq/memdisk
append initrd=suppl_aq/boot.img
c. Save and close the default file.
11. Test the installation on the test machine.