Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future. Unfortunately I didn't keep a proper note of my PXEboot attempt, but IIRC the problem was that install.img was not found, although I had links to it in several places. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:49:48 +0200 Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:> Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.Use cobbler, it does all the magic for you and things just work. -- Jure Pe?ar http://jure.pecar.org http://f5j.eu
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote:> Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.Yep. Several times, in fact.> If so, would you say how you did it, please. > I tried (on an HP MicroServer), > but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. > But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.I really just followed my procedure for netbooting CentOS 5, but changed the directory paths. 0. Set up local http mirror of CentOS 6 1. Set up tftp server; make CentOS 6 pxe kernel and initrd.img available 2. Use PXE menu to point to right kernel, initrd.img, and boot options 3. Set up DHCP server to point to the correct next-server and filename -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
Timothy Murphy wrote:> Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. > If so, would you say how you did it, please. > I tried (on an HP MicroServer), > but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. > But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future. > > Unfortunately I didn't keep a proper note of my PXEboot attempt, > but IIRC the problem was that install.img was not found, > although I had links to it in several places.Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you having? mark
Timothy Murphy wrote:> Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.I haven't succeeded in installing CentOS-6 on my HP MicroServer by PXEboot yet, despite several tries. It hangs during "waiting for hardware to initialize". Is there any way of finding out which particular piece of hardware is causing the problem? I've tried adding noapic and acpi=off to the kernel line but these didn't help. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland