How To Install kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8.
What is kiwi-pxeboot
This package contains the basic PXE directory structure which is needed to serve kiwi built images via PXE.
We can use yum or dnf to install kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kiwi-pxeboot.
Install kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install kiwi-pxeboot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kiwi-pxeboot
Install kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install kiwi-pxeboot using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kiwi-pxeboot
How To Uninstall kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the kiwi-pxeboot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kiwi-pxeboot
kiwi-pxeboot Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/licenses/kiwi-pxeboot
/usr/share/licenses/kiwi-pxeboot/LICENSE
/var/lib/tftpboot/KIWI
/var/lib/tftpboot/boot
/var/lib/tftpboot/image
/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
/var/lib/tftpboot/upload
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-pxeboot on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.