Highbank Fedora Installation Config

Introduction

These are detailed instructions for setting up an F18 installation on a Calxeda Highbank box such as a Boston Viridis server. These instructions build on the notes at fedora:Architectures/ARM/F18/HighBank

Assumptions

1. Highbank box is on a private LAN 192.168.1.0/24
2. F18 x86_64 host has two NICs - one to private LAN, one to Internet

Packages Required

• dhcp
• tftp-server
• httpd

TFTP configuration

1. Create /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg
2. Create /var/lib/tftpboot/f18-highbank
3. Place these files in /var/lib/tftpboot/f18-highbank:
   • http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/cf/F18-highbank.ks
   • http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/18/Fedora/armhfp/os/images/pxeboot/initrd-highbank.img
   • http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/18/Fedora/armhfp/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-highbank
   • http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/18/Fedora/armhfp/os/images/pxeboot/upgrade-highbank.img
   • http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/18/Fedora/armhfp/os/images/pxeboot/uImage-highbank
   • http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/18/Fedora/armhfp/os/images/pxeboot/uInitrd-highbank
4. Change disable = yes to disable = no in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
5. Reload/restart xinetd (note: restart needed if there were previously no available services): systemctl restart xinetd

PXE configuration

1. Place PXE configuration in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg, named "01-mac" e.g., "01-fc-2f-40-48-06-a0" - repeat once for each node

PXE configuration file contents:

menu title F18 HighBank Boot Options

default Highbank-Install
prompt 1
timeout 100

label Highbank-Install
    kernel f18-highbank/vmlinuz-highbank
    initrd f18-highbank/initrd-highbank.img
    append console=ttyAMA0 ip=eth0:dhcp ks=http://192.168.1.254/f18-highbank/F18-highbank.ks rd.shell

HTTP configuration

1. Configure httpd to serve /var/lib/tftpboot/f18-highbank as /f18-highbank by adding this text to /etc/httpd/conf.d/f18-highbank.cfg:

Alias /f18-highbank "/var/lib/tftpboot/f18-highbank"

<Directory "/var/lib/tftpboot/f18-highbank">
   Options Indexes
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from 192.168.1.0/24
   Deny from all
</Directory>