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<para>On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora system, this means, you have to install the dracut-network rpm package:</para> <para>On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora system, this means, you have to install the dracut-network rpm package:</para>
<screen># yum install dracut-network</screen> <screen># yum install dracut-network</screen>
<para>The resulting initramfs image can be served by a boot manager residing on your local hard drive or it can be served by a PXE/TFTP server.</para> <para>The resulting initramfs image can be served by a boot manager residing on your local hard drive or it can be served by a PXE/TFTP server.</para>
<para>How to setup your PXE/TFTP server can be read here:</para> <para>How to setup your PXE/TFTP server can be found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Storage Administration Guide http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/</para>
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<para>If you specify <envar>rd.ip=auto</envar> on the kernel command line, then dracut asks a dhcp server about the ip adress for the machine. The dhcp server can also serve an additional root-path, which will set the root device for dracut. With this mechanism, you have static configuration on your client machine and a centralized boot configuration on your TFTP/dhcp server. If you can&apos;t pass a kernel command line, then you can inject <filename>/etc/cmdline</filename>, with a method described in the section &quot;Injecting custom files&quot;. <para>If you specify <envar>rd.ip=auto</envar> on the kernel command line, then dracut asks a dhcp server about the ip adress for the machine. The dhcp server can also serve an additional root-path, which will set the root device for dracut. With this mechanism, you have static configuration on your client machine and a centralized boot configuration on your TFTP/dhcp server. If you can&apos;t pass a kernel command line, then you can inject <filename>/etc/cmdline</filename>, with a method described in the section &quot;Injecting custom files&quot;.
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