Riccardo Castellani
2013-Oct-15 12:26 UTC
[CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network installation
I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram and no cdrom) by PXE. I exported installation tree 'CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso' via http on server 'Z', all according to Centos howto (copied vmlinuz, pxelinux.cfg, initrd.img , started tftpd+dhcpd services) Boot process is OK (in text mode! I think it's a memory problem); it's required keyboard type, time zone, network parameters, disk partitions, ... but no installation type is required (basic, minimal, server, ...) and no packages selection ! Installation goes on installing the packages but without choosing them! I'd like to choose type of installation and the details of packages, any options as I used directly installation dvdrom1. I don't want to use kickstart file ! My 'pxelinux.cfg/default' file: timeout 9000 default menu.c32 menu title ########## PXE Boot Menu ########## label 1 menu label ^1) Install CentOS 6 kernel centos64/vmlinuz append initrd=centos64/initrd.img repo=http://a.b.x.y/centos6 devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=152000 label 2 menu label ^2) Boot from local drive localboot What do you think ?
Scott Robbins
2013-Oct-15 12:44 UTC
[CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network installation
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:> I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram and no > cdrom) by PXE.You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I've forgotten the exact requirement. As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or disk layout. Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is to use a kickstart file. So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation, use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I know that's unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is supposed to be a server O/S.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
Riccardo Castellani
2013-Oct-15 14:19 UTC
Re: no group package selection via PXE network installation
Now I upgraded ram to 1 GB. Now I see that client try to get ... /centos6/images/product.img + /centos6/images/updates.img but these files are missing in /images/ of ''CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso'' [divx] Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing from list! ... ... Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default I tried to append ''vga=771'' to this line: append initrd=centos64/initrd.img repo=http://a.y.z.a.5/centos6 devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=352000 vga=771 but nothing! With vga=773 nothing! -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org [mailto:centos-bounces-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Scott Robbins Sent: martedì 15 ottobre 2013 14:44 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network installation On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:> I''m trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram > and no > cdrom) by PXE.You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I''ve forgotten the exact requirement. As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or disk layout. Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is to use a kickstart file. So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation, use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I know that''s unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is supposed to be a server O/S.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos