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| ====== Fedora boot from SAN ====== | ====== Fedora boot from SAN ====== | ||
| - | Fedora supports booting from an iSCSI SAN. You can install directly to the iSCSI target. | + | {{ screenshots:fedora_iscsi_install_start.png?400x300|Start of Fedora installation}} |
| - | ===== Installation ===== | + | Fedora supports booting from an iSCSI SAN. You can install directly to the iSCSI target. Before starting installation, you will need to |
| - | The Fedora installation process is somewhat fragile, and the built-in support for iSCSI installation does not function properly. However, it is possible to work around this limitation and install to an iSCSI target. | + | * [[sanboot:iscsi_create_target|Create an iSCSI target]] |
| - | Start a Fedora network installation in the usual way, and proceed up to the point of the graphical welcome screen: | ||
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| - | {{screenshots:fedora_iscsi_install_start.png?400x300|Start of Fedora installation}} | ||
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| - | Before clicking on //Next//, press //Ctrl-Alt-F2//. This should take you to a root shell prompt. Configure and start up the iSCSI initiator: | ||
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| - | sh-3.2# mkdir /etc/iscsi | ||
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| - | sh-3.2# echo InitiatorName=iqn.2007-08.name.dns.my:initiator > \ | ||
| - | /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi | ||
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| - | sh-3.2# iscsid | ||
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| - | {{ screenshots:fedora_iscsi_install_connect.png?320x200|Fedora iSCSI installation connection to disk}} | ||
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| - | where //name.dns.my// is your DNS name in reverse order. (For completeness, you should also replace //2007-08// with the year and month in which you first obtained your DNS domain. The iSCSI naming schemes are somewhat pedantic, but it won’t affect anything in practice; as long as the initiator name is unique then everything will work just fine.) | ||
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| - | Connect to the iSCSI target to be used for installation: | ||
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| - | sh-3.2# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p my.iscsi.target:3260 | ||
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| - | where //my.iscsi.target// is the DNS name or IP address of your iSCSI target. | ||
