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4.1 Setting up a Central Installation
Server
Instead of installing each computer with a set of installation media, pro-
vide the installation data on a dedicated installation server in your network
and fetch it from there to install the clients. The YaST installation server
supports HTTP, FTP, and NFS. With the help of the service location proto-
cols (SLP), this server can be made known to all clients in the network. This
means that there is no need to select the installation source manually on the
clients.
Note
Information about SLP
Detailed information about SLP under SUSE LINUX is available
in Section 21.6 on page 455.
Note
4.1.1 Configuration with YaST
Start ‘Miscellaneous’ ➝ ‘Installation Server’. Then configure the new instal-
lation server in four steps:
Selecting the Server Type YaST supports three types of installation server:
HTTP, FTP, and NFS. Select the desired server type. From now on,
the selected server service is started automatically every time the sys-
tem starts. If a service of the selected type is already running on your
system and you want to configure it manually for the server, deacti-
vate the automatic configuration of the server service with ‘Do not
configure any network services.’. In both cases, define the directory
in which the installation data should be made available on the server
(see Figure 4.1 on the facing page).
Detailed Configuration of the Required Server Type
This step relates to the automatic configuration of server services.
This dialog is skipped when automatic configuration is deactivated.
Define an alias for the root directory of the FTP or HTTP server on
which the installation data will be found. The installation source will
later be located under ftp://<Server-IP>/<Alias>/<Name>
(FTP) or under http://<Server-IP>/<Alias>/<Name> (HTTP).
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