Highbank Fedora Installation Config

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Introduction

These are detailed instructions for setting up an F18 installation on a Calxeda Highbank box such as a Boston Viridis server. These instructions are a more detailed version of 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

NAT configuration

DHCP configuration

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:
  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>
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