Displaying 20 results from an estimated 20000 matches similar to: "Kickstart from FTP or USB"
2005 May 28
1
Re: centos] Kickstart from FTP or USB
>Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
>>Yes. DHCP is the successor to BOOTP that offers a superset of its
>>functionality. But in the original BOOTP functionality, you would pass
>>the filename the BOOTP client would retrieve from a TFTP server so it
>>could boot. The file was then booted.
>>
>>This is how we have been installing workstations/servers in the UNIX
2017 Aug 14
1
Custom kickstart post section on usb thumbdrive
Hi All,
I am attempting to create a custom USB drive for kickstart install.
I found this:
1. get the ISO file of CentOS 7
2. mount -o loop CentOS-7.0*.iso /mnt/
3. mkdir -p
/CentOS-7-ISO-respin/{CentOS-7-unpacked,CentOS-7-iso}
4. rsync -avz /mnt/ /CentOS-7-ISO-respin/RHEL-7-unpacked
5. put your kickstart file into
2016 Aug 04
4
CentOS 7 kickstart question
Dear Experts,
Could somebody point to kicstart HOWTO specific for CentOS 7?
On CentOS 7 I somehow am always given human intervention questions about
drive which defeats unattended ks install.
<rant ??>
I'm doing kickstart installations for quite some time, normally I was just
installing system when new release comes, and am basing kickstart file on
anaconda-ks.cfg - with some
2004 Oct 26
2
kickstart from cd
Howdy,
Was wondering if anyone on the list has successfully created a
kickstart cd. I get the thing burnt, looks good, I can browse all the
files, but when I actually boot from it I can't get it to admit the
ks.cfg exists. I *have* been successful with kickstart over http;
just can't seem to make it happen from the cd. Pointers appreciated,
I've been mostly looking at the
2016 Aug 05
1
CentOS 7 kickstart question
On Thu, August 4, 2016 7:13 pm, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
>> Dear Experts,
>>
>> Could somebody point to kicstart HOWTO specific for CentOS 7?
>>
>> On CentOS 7 I somehow am always given human intervention questions
>> about drive which defeats unattended ks install.
>>
>> At least one snag I hit
2007 Jun 18
2
CentOS 5 & USB Kickstart?
Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb
drivers for kickstart installations?
I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it
can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path. I use the
exact same boot options with CentOS 4 without any problems.
What am I missing with CentOS 5? Thanks for any tips.
--
Jiann-Ming Su
2005 Jan 15
1
Guide to stripping Centos 3
I responded to a post in the Dell poweredge mailing list
earlier today. My answer was off the top of my head, with a
bit of experimentation. The content may be useful in the
Cenyos context as well to admin's looking to strip the size of
an install to the bare bones.
Comment welcomed. Can anyone see any packages which I have
missed?
-- Russ Herrold
---------- Forwarded message
2016 Aug 23
3
Kickstart issue with UEFi
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 at 02:18 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 08/21/2016 11:56 PM, Phil Manuel wrote:
> > part /boot/efi --fstype="efi" --size=200 --ondisk=sda
> > And I have tried the latter with location as mbr still fails
> > What am I missing ?
>
>
> I very vaguely remember struggling with this as well, but I can't find
2018 Sep 27
1
Failed to get to installer for CentOS 7 VM under CentOS 6...
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Robert Heller wrote:
> I just tried a CentOS 7 install to a laptop over PXE and it failed in just the
> same way as for the VM.
>
> So, is it not possible to install CentOS 7 via PXE? Or is there something
> missing? I just copied the images under os/x86_64/images/ to the tftpd
> directory (/var/lib/tftpboot/) and included in
>
2012 Jul 10
3
kickstart installation problem
Dear Friends,
I have centos 6.2 64 bit os in my dell server. When I try to install centos
or scientific linux using NFS so it is not working and getting me error =
"unable to download kickstart file".
My kickstart file configuration is :
#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
#version=DEVEL
# Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled
# Install OS instead of upgrade
install
# Use NFS
2006 Jul 20
3
Kickstart problem.
I am trying to use kickstart for automated builds from a DVD. Some of
the machines have DVD's drives and some have CDRom drives only. With the
CDRom only machines I would like to plug in an external DVD drive via
USB and use this to kickstart.
The DVD only machines work correctly with a isolinux.cfg as
label test
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192
2006 Oct 06
2
looking for 4.2 minimal kickstart
Hi
I am looking for an example of a kickstart file for a simple, minimal
server install. I don't need any graphical apps just ssh, httpd and
development tools. It seems that even when I specify only the packages I
want many other packages are installed making the install very large.
Any links to guides or example kickstart files would be great.
Thanks,
Andrew Zahn
2007 Mar 21
2
interactive %pre in kickstart?
Here's what I'm currently doing in ks.cfg:
%pre
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "Please enter blah: "
read blah
echo $blah > /tmp/ks-blah
I know that "read blah" works fine, because after that I see the
variable in the /tmp file.
The problem is, echo doesn't seem to work at this stage. This pretty
much kills the idea of an interactive %pre script.
I was thinking to
2005 Feb 08
1
My kernel panics when I add the kickstart line with append - could I get some advice?
I am trying to add a kickstart file to my automatic installation and
make it more automatic. However, when I comment out the append ks=...
line in the example below, the computer boots properly. If I uncomment
that line, then I get a kernel panic:
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 09:02
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root
2011 Aug 13
3
grabbing ip address from kickstart pre
I can get the kickstart command line with /proc/cmdline
it looks something like xxxxx ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg xxxxxx
in the %pre sections of my ks.cfg I was wanting to extract the IP from
the ks= part.
I was going to utilize the "tr" command but its not available in %pre.
how can I go about extracting the IP address from with in the %pre section
I was going to do something
2006 Jul 28
4
Kickstart from floppy falling into regular install
I took my anaconda-ks.cfg file, cp to ks.cfg and copied to a floppy
The isos have been copied to an ftp server. So I had the following
lines in my ks.cfg
intall
url ftp://10.1.1.1// (yes the ftp server's directory is the Centos
directory)
This is along with all the appropriate network command to get the
ethernet setup.
I issue the linux ks=floppy (also tried linux
2006 Aug 12
3
Problems with x86_64 kickstart
I have successfully set up a very nice kickstart install with the i386
version of CentOS 4.3 and it works great. I am using a custom kickstart
script and the kernel and initrd from disc1/images. But when I try to
duplicate this for a 64 bit setup (changing paths in my tftp server,
ks.cfg, etc to point to the 64 bit stuff) it successfully tftp's
everything just as it should (tethereal
2011 Aug 14
4
Kickstart installation error
Hi,
I?m trying kickstart on CentOS
Below is my ks.cfg
*[root at localhost ~]# cat /root/ks.cfg*
*
*
#Generated by Kickstart Configurator
#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
#System language
lang en_US
#Language modules to install
langsupport en_US
#System keyboard
keyboard us
#System mouse
mouse
#Sytem timezone
timezone Asia/Dili
#Root password
rootpw --iscrypted
2011 Jul 20
2
CentOS 6 PXE boot: Unable to download the kickstart file
Patrick Lists wrote:
>>> I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS
>>> problem. We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE.
>>> It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which fails. What I'd love to learn
>>> is how others have made NFS/Kickstart work...
>>
>> Is CentOS 6 assuming
2006 Dec 27
2
Kickstart: Give IP From ks= Cmdline A Myth?
Hey, someone just told me yesterday that I can give my machine an
initial IP address, gateway, dns server, and netmask via command line
like this:
linux ks=http://www.mydomain.com/kick.ks ip=192.168.1.5
netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns=192.168.1.10
Is this true? Is the syntax wrong or right?
If so, and I call my kick.ks file and it has
install
cdrom
it'll pull the files