[sle-beta] Having trouble PXE booting SLE15

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi Lance,

On Tue, Dec 12, Lance Ortiz wrote:

> I am working with Dell’s OS engineering team and they had some issues with PXE
> booting SLE15.   Is there a PXE guide for SLE15?  Any thoughts on this issue?

We provide tftpboot-installer* RPMs for easy PXE boot installation.
But this will most likely not fully solve your problem.
I have one question to you here: where do the "method=" and "addon="
options come from? I can neither find them in our documentation, nor
do our developer know them.

The most comfortable way to do a network installation is either using
a SMT server as installation source, or autoyast.

  Thorsten

>  
> 
> 1)      PXE Guide for SLES15 Installation:
> 
> We are adding below entry to our PXE server, but we are able to See and install
> only Base Packages. It would help us if we can get a guide on how to properly
> add these Add on modules to the PXE Entry.
> 
>  
> 
> label SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15--x86_64
> 
>     menu title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15  x86_64
> 
>     kernel /distrotrees/16/kernel
> 
>     append initrd=/distrotrees/16/initrd method=http://<PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/
> SLES15/Beta3/os/ repo=http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>//suse/SLES15/Beta3/os/ addon=
> http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Basesystem/ addon=http://
> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Desktop-Applications/ addon=http://
> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Desktop-Productivity addon=http://
> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Development-Tools/ addon=http://
> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Legacy addon=http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>
> suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Server-Applications/  install=http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>
> /suse/SLES15/Beta3/os/
> 
>  
> 
> Lance Ortiz
> 
> Technical Account Manager (Dell)
> 

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