similar to: Kickstart help

Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. - CS. ------------------- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the

I was just wondering how (or indeed if) people use the %include directive in Kickstart configuration files when building systems via NFS. I've been trying to modularise our Kickstart files a little to make things more readable, having generic defaults and role specific stuff split out into separate configs. I've tried this configuration... [root at archive kickstart]# cat

Hi All, I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2. I've looked in the /etc directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2 files. Am I missing something grossly obvious here? -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet),

Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the proprietary Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optiplex 980. The install dies, with a c error. Anyone else out there succeed in building one on the 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5-x86_64 kernel? I went to the ATI website, and the "installation instructions" include that it needs a) 32 bit software (which? dunno) and b) a

Hi List, Does anyone here use Dell Equallogic IP SAN? If so, do you have any immediate high points / low points you wouldn't mind discussing on- or off-list ? Thanks.

Hi all, cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) When I check update, yum says not update. What do I miss? Thank you. yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update

Hi All, For those testing EXT4 I seem to have found an issue with anaconda where by if you specify EXT4 fstype in your kickstart file it will not install and complains that if needs another 250MB of disk space. I've tried with my kickstart set for 10G for root at ext3 and it works fine. 10,15 and 20GB with EXT4 all fail. BTW: can't put /boot on it either. Just a heads up for all.

Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? any help would be greatly appreciated.. thank you -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :) Cheers, Timo

I have a kickstart file created that works great for installing CentOS on PVM''s and now I want to use it for HVM''s as well. The problem is that when I attempt to run the install, it seems to ignore the kickstart and starts prompting me for all the things I already have specified in the kickstart. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Here is the command im using to get things

On a CentOS 5 server, I am having a hard time configuring BIND to answer to 4 IP addresses for 2 domain names. Currently, I have four IP addresses, for sake of discussion they are: 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 Additionally, I have two domain names. For sake of discussion: exampleA.com exampleB.com My goal is to have 1.1.1.1 & 1.1.1.2 as the nameservers for exampleA.com, and 1.1.1.3 &

Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/25/2016 11:35 PM, Phil Manuel wrote: >> The relevant kickstart section is:- >> >> part /boot/efi --fstype efi --grow --maxsize=200 --size=20 --ondisk=sda >> bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda1 >> autopart --type=lvm > > A couple of things to consider: > * The documentation for

Hello all, I have just configured a 64-bit CentOS 5.5 machine to support an XFS filesystem as specified in the subject line. The filesystem will be used to store an extremely large number of files (in the tens of millions). Due to its extremely large size, would there be any non-standard XFS build/configuration options I should consider? Thanks. Boris. -------------- next part -------------- An

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Mark Haney wrote: > On 11/01/2017 05:02 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: >> Leaving ksdevice= off the command line will prompt you for the location of >> the kickstart file and the device you want to use to kickstart >> > Well, things just got weird with this.? The first couple of times I included > the biosdevname etc, on the command line with

----- On 1 Nov, 2017, at 13:07, Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net wrote: | Once upon a time, Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net> said: |> On 11/01/2017 03:25 PM, Chris Adams wrote: |> >Once upon a time, Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net> said: |> >>Okay, so it looks like I can simply change ksdevice=eth0? to |> >>bootdev=eth0, correct? |> >I

I have a problem that is driving me crazy. Our nfs server is running Solaris. Most clients mount directories from it with no problems, but not all. All clients that have problems run CentOS (5.4 and 5.5). I've found one or two of each version that fail, but also a couple of each version that work. The mounting is done for user home directories via autofs but that doesn't seem to make any

Hi, Is is possible to use kickstart file to install rhel from dvd drive? Mainly idea is to clone one anaconda.ks file to about twenty machines.? examples? ftp/http/dhcp is not possible due to network limitations. -- Eero

I'm testing doing kickstart installations on Xen VMs. This is the first time I'm trying out kickstart at all, so I rather think I'm doing something wrong in the kickstart configuration than it is a Xen issue. I use a modified kickstart file from an earlier manual installation with a very basic filesystem setup. It fails with "SystemError: vgcreate failed for VolGroup00".

I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually). However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section? Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course...

Hi, I have alot of kickstart and scripting going on as I provision lots of machines, and every now and then I run into a pesky machine or three that's still got that Adeptec zero-channel RAID card sitting on the board. Normally I like to rip it our and throw something more robust in, but if it's a cache machine or whatever, I leave it in. It makes my kickstart file useless until I