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8. Select your optical drive. The window shown in Figure 8-37 opens.

Figure 8-37 Media selection

9. When you select your optical drive, you have three options. Select option 2

(Normal Mode boot), then select option 1 (Yes) on the next screen. The boot

process for your CD displays, and you can continue with the installation

process shown in “Installation procedures” on page 364.

8.2.3 TFTP network installation

We can use the standard tools of any Linux distribution to manage a network

installation. This method is useful when an optical drive is not available or if a

NIM server is not installed and configured. Any Linux x86-based computer can

be used as the TFTP server and virtually any Linux distribution can be easily

configured to perform this task. In this section, we describe how to implement

this function.

First, you must set up three standard Linux services on the installation server:

򐂰 tftpd

򐂰 dhcpd (used only to allow netboot using bootpd to a specific MAC address)

򐂰 NFS server

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Select Task

Interpartition Logical LAN

( loc=U7895.42X.1058008-V6-C4-T1 )

1. Information

2. Normal Mode Boot

3. Service Mode Boot

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Navigation keys:

M = return to Main Menu

ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services

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Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key: