HP Smart Update Best Practices Implementer Guide

6. Configure PXELINUX
a. Create directory /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg.
b. Create files representing the hex value of the static IP address in the /tftpboot/
pxelinux.cfg directory. For example, if the static IP address used is 192.168.0.254,
the hex value is C0A800FE and the files to be created would be:
• C
• C0
• C0A
• C0A8
• COA80
• COA800
• C0A800F
• COA800FE
c. Create a zero-sized file (using touch) representing the MAC address of the NIC of the
boot PXE boot client (pre-pended with 01 and replacing ‘:’ with ‘-‘) in the /tftpboot/
pxelinux.cfg directory. For example, if the NIC MAC address were
00:01:02:03:04:05, a file name would be 01-00-01-02-03-04-05.
7. Create a default pxelinux configuration.
a. Create a file name default in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory.
b. Set the contents of the default file to:
prompt 1
default Linux
timeout 100
label Linux
kernel vmlinux
append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 noapic acpi=off
8. Copy the entire contents of the SPP ISO to a directory named /tftpboot/SPP*, where ‘”’
represents the version of the SPP.
9. Add the following to /ect/httpd/conf/httpd/conf where “*” represents the version
of the SPP.
<Directory /tftpboot/SPP*>.
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Alias /linux /tftpboot/SPP*
10. Start the dhcpd and apache services and activate tftp.
service dhcpd start
service xinetd restart
service httpd start
11. PXE boot the servers to begin the update process.
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