Product specifications

○ Is the kickstart file in place?

# ls /var/www/html/hana.cfg

○ Are the permissions set correctly?

# chmod 644 /var/www/html/hana.cfg

○ Does the URL point to the PXE installer machine?

○ Before partitioning, ensure that the disk is erased entirely. Check the kickstart file if it contains the

following keywords in the partitioning section.

○ zerombr

○ clearpart –all

○ Make a syntax check of the kickstart file

# ksvalidator </var/www/html/hana.cfg>

● Restart the xinetd service

# service xinetd restart

# service dhcpd restart

● Enable and start the FTP server and the web server

# chkconfig vsftpd on

# chkconfig httpd on

# service vsftpd start

# service httpd start

4.8 Appendix H – Sample Kickstart File

In the box below, you can find a sample kickstart file for setting up a SAP HANA compatible system.

Remember to replace all occurrences of host names in this file with the corresponding IP addresses or host

names in your network.

# Kickstart file created for SAP HANA installation

# Written by:

# Date: 28.05.2014

# Version: 0.0

install

cdrom

text

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard de-latin1-nodeadkeys

network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6

rootpw --iscrypted $1$fMNgI.fz$w4efvaNMstBUakB9rmV4C/

firewall --disabled

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

selinux --disabled

# Set the timezone for the installation

timezone --utc Europe/Berlin

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet"

# The following is the partition information you requested

# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed

# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is

# not guaranteed to work

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 Configuration Guide for SAP HANA

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