this is obsolete doc -- see http://doc.nethence.com/ instead

Installation server with RHEL or NetBSD 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/net/ftpinstallsrv.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/net/pxe.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/security/ssh_cluster.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/sysutils_linux/kickstart.html 

Prerequesties 

Make sure those are installed. On RHEL, 

rpm -q \

nfs-utils portmap \

vsftpd \

httpd \

unzip \

| grep ^package

FTP service with RHEL 

Make sure anonymous FTP logins are enabled, 

grep ^ftp /etc/passwd

grep ^ftp /etc/group

grep anonymous_enable /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Eventually delete the default public folder, 

#cd /var/ftp/

#rmdir pub

Fix the perms for ftpadmin, 

useradd -g ftp -d /var/ftp ftpadmin

passwd ftpadmin

chown -R ftpadmin:ftp /var/ftp/

Enable, 

service vsftpd restart

chkconfig vsftpd on

rhel7, 

systemctl start vsftpd
systemctl enable vsftpd 

FTP service with NetBSD 

Enable anonymous FTP, 

grep ^ftp: /etc/passwd

useradd -b /var -m -g daemon ftp

Fix the perms (otherwise by default, anonymous users are able to upload, not to remove though, shit into the main guest directory). Assuming you've got a prefered wheeled user at hand. Otherwise and simply 'root'. And create an upload dir, 

cd /var/

ls -l

chown wheeluser:daemon ftp/

cd ftp/

mkdir -p upload/

chown ftp:daemon upload/

Note. Change 'wheeluser' accordingly. 

Enable and start the ftp daemon, 

cd /etc/

grep ftp defaults/rc.conf

cat >> rc.conf <<EOF9

ftpd=yes

EOF9

rc.d/ftpd start

NFS service 

Configure the NFS share, 

cd /etc

vi exports

like, 

/var/ftp        *(ro,async,no_root_squash)

#/var/ftp        *(rw,async,no_root_squash)

Enable, 

service nfs restart

chkconfig nfs on

HTTP service 

Configure Apache 2 on RHEL5, 

rpm -q httpd

cd /etc/httpd/conf

mv httpd.conf httpd.conf.dist

sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d; /^[[:space:]]*#/d;' httpd.conf.dist > httpd.conf.dist.clean

#sed 's/root@localhost/YOUR_EMAIL/' httpd.conf.dist.clean > httpd.conf

sed 's|/var/www/html|/var/ftp|' httpd.conf.dist.clean > httpd.conf

note. directory listing (Indexes) is enabled for /var/ftp by default ! 

fix things, 

cd ../conf.d

mv proxy_ajp.conf proxy_ajp.conf.dist

mv welcome.conf welcome.conf.dist

Start and enable the daemon at startup, 

service httpd restart

chkconfig httpd on

Slackware installation files 

We don't need the whole DVD, a few sets are enought, 

cd /var/ftp

mkdir -p slackware64-13.1/slackware64

cd slackware64-13.1/slackware64

  lftp ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware64-13.1/slackware64/

mirror a

mirror ap

mirror d

mirror l

mirror n

those might also be usefull..., 

cd ..

lcd ..

mirror isolinux

mirror kernels

mirror pasture

mirror usb-and-pxe-installers

Windows XP installation files 

(hmm... you need to enable Samba here). Eventually share the Windows XP installation files for network installations with WinPE, 

mkdir -p /var/ftp/winxp/

cd /var/ftp/winxp/

with those, 

$OEM$/$1/...

I386/

diskpart.lst

install.bat

winxp.sif