CentOS - May 2013 - How to Automate Centos 5.7 CD bare bones build

Does anyone know how to automate a CD Centos 5.7 build.?

1) new bare bones workstation ( PXE enabled)

2) Boot from CD to the boot prompt

3) At the boot: linux ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7

The workstation is able to connect to the server and the kick-start works
great.!

Question: how can I automate? linux
ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7 on the CD?

Unattended installation after installing the cd into the workstation

Just use pxe?

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, J.W. slone wrote:
> Does anyone know how to automate a CD Centos 5.7 build.?
>
> 1) new bare bones workstation ( PXE enabled)
>
> 2) Boot from CD to the boot prompt
>
> 3) At the boot: linux ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7
>
> The workstation is able to connect to the server and the kick-start works
> great.!
>
> Question: how can I automate  linux ks>
http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7 on the CD?
>
> Unattended installation after installing the cd into the workstation
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From: J.W. slone <jslonejr at yahoo.com>
>Does anyone know how to automate a CD Centos 5.7 build.?
>1) new bare bones workstation ( PXE enabled)
>2) Boot from CD to the boot prompt
>3) At the boot: linux ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7
>
>The workstation is able to connect to the server and the kick-start works
great.!
>Question: how can I automate? linux
ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7 on the CD?
>Unattended installation after installing the cd into the workstation 
Something like that (untested)?

mkdir /tmp/cdrom
mount CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop
cp -a /mnt/cdrom /tmp/cdrom
umount /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp/cdrom

vim isolinux/isolinux.cfg
? default linux ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7
? timeout 3
chmod u+w isolinux/*

mini iso (without packages):
? cd /tmp/cdrom
? mkisofs -o ../mini.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T isolinux/

full iso (with packages):
? cd /tmp
? mkisofs -o full.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T cdrom


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