Owner's Manual

80 Preparing the Script Files
NOTE: See your operating system documentation for instructions on modifying the
options in the ks.cfg/ks-rhel5.cfg/ks-rhel6.cfg file to customize the scripted
installation of your operating system.
When you have completed all necessary modifications of the ks.cfg/ks-
rhel5.cfg/ks-rhel6.cfg file, save the completed file in the
/opt/dell/toolkit/systems/<target system> directory.
Install Linux Using lininst.sh
On a Linux system, edit the /etc/exports file. If the folder you want to share is
/home
, then /etc/exports file must contain the “ /home *(rw) ” line. Restart the
NFS Service on your system and copy the relevant OS images to the NFS share.
NOTE: See your operating system documentation for instructions on modifying
the options in the ks.cfg/ks-rhel5.cfg/ks-rhel6.cfg file to customize the scripted
installation of your operating system.
Perform the following steps to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the
lininst.sh script:
1
Create the virtual disk using raidcfg command.
2 Run the partcfg.sh script before running lininst.sh to create Dell Utility
partition and OS partition.
3 Create a directory under /tmp . For example, os_src .
4 Mount the NFS Share to /tmp/os_src .
5 Copy the file initrd.img for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to the NFS Share.
6 Copy vmlinuz from Red Hat Enterprise Linux media to the NFS Share.
7 Copy the ks.cfg file from /opt/dell/toolkit/template/configs to the NFS
Share.
8 Edit the file ks.cfg . Set the NFS IP Address where Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
images are available and the NFS share path.
9 Run export DT_OS_DISK=/dev/sda , the disk device on which the Dell
Utility partition was created.
10 Run export DT_OS_SRC=/tmp/os_src , where vmlinuz , initrd.img , and
ks.cfg are available.
11 Run export DT_HD=/dev/sda .