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Hello, I posted a question over at xenproject.org but it was recommended that I send out a message here for help. My post there: http://www.xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/vanilla-pv-centos-guest-via-kickstart-centos-6-6,-xen-4-4.html The TL;DR is: Everything I've found to kickstart a new vanilla rhel/centos guest points to specifying a kernel & and initrd- for RHEL/Centos 5.

HI all, I just did a fresh C7 install using kickstart. fdisk -l /dev/sda shows: # Start End Size Type Name 1 2048 2050047 1000M EFI System EFI System Partition 2 2050048 104450047 48.8G Microsoft basic 3 104450048 112642047 3.9G Linux swap 4 112642048 234440703 58.1G Microsoft basic What extra do I need to

Hi,all: Today I tried installating few machines with kickstart file through NFS. But somehow it didn't worked and got error message "Unable to download the kickstart file". I have tested the nfs share mounting from other server and it worked fine. But somehow while trying to install <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#>a fresh machine with ks file through NFS is giving this

Hi, I am new to this list, but would greatly appreciate any help on the topic. We are trying to automate the build/installation of a pSeries machine using kickstart server. We have a process in place that completes a system build of xSeries machines. It uses pxelinux.0 to direct the bootp to the kernel, ramdisk and kickstart.config file. I was trying to use the same process to build the pSeries

I am using kickstart to automate installs. working nicely. I now have a box with 2 NIC cards and I am getting prompted for which nick to use. I have a line like: network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname tmp.msgnet.com in my kickstart. This line does not seem to be enough to say install with eth0 even though there may be an eth1. How do I tell kickstart to not prompt for which network

Hi, I have make a kickstart file to automate the installation from cdrom and another repo. The kickstart snippet looks like install graphical cdrom repo --name="Updates" --baseurl="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/" --cost=98 selinux --enforcing After installation, system boots but kernel crash with the message Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to

Hi all, I am trying to automate the provisioning of a few VM, dom0 CentOS5 - domU CentOS4.5, the installation goes well but it completely ignores the %post bit in the kickstart: # Kickstart file for a generic VM install url --url http://server/mrepo/centos4-x86_64/disc1 cmdline skipx reboot # Partition information ..... # General system config bootloader --location=mbr keyboard uk lang

Hallo, I try to use my own repo. The problem: The repo is working when using it while installing a fresh system using pxe and kickstart. When changing the content and rebuilding the repo new packages are not found. My question: What is the right way to reinit a repo complete? I tried several hints I found in the web but new packages are never found. Thanks Ralf Von meinem iPad gesendet

The 5.3 upgrade broke the kickstart procedures for my xen virtual machines. They are installed via http. 1. The installer sets up the timezone interactively even though it is specified in the kickstart file. Not a big deal, though. 2. The installer hangs unpredictably when installing selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-203.el5.noarch.rpm. Performing a dozen or so installs, sometimes the

Hi, I'm facing a problem with setting up LDAP+TLS client authentication in a kickstart script on CentOS7 for several days. Setting up manualy the config with system-config-authentication works but I need to automate this in kickstart for deploying cluster nodes. This show that the server side is running fine. At this time the message is #systemctl status sssd |....

I'd like to automate the upgrade from CentOS 4.6 to 5.1 as much as possible. Since upgrades per se are not really recommended, I'm planning to do a kickstart installation. However, I want to leave one of the existing partitions (/scratch) untouched during the installation. Here is my current layout (LogVol00 is swap so not shown in the df output below): # df -hl

I have been installing CentOS for years using PXE, kickstart and NFS, but the procedure fails with CentOS 6.6 for some reason. A PXE-initiated, manual install goes through all the setup steps, and once rpm installation has started, it dies after a few packages: anaconda 13.21.229 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1006,

Hi all I'm busy with a kickstart file to automate server installations, and I need to run a bash script right after the server has been installed for the first time. But the script only needs to run once, and it needs to run automatically. How do I do that? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for

Hi, Need some pointers. Currently using mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,pasword=xxx //servername/sharename /mnt/share Since I can only mount as root, (not in /etc/fstab) sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,pasword=xxx //servername/sharename /mnt/share Problem here is.. I can't get group or world writeable permission on the share. It's a NTFS share but that is not a problem. I can

Hi all, I've started playing with kvm on CentOS 5.5, with not much success so far. In a nutshell, I have the same problem as http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2010-April/001854.html I followed the RHEL5 virtualization guide to set up a bridge interface br0, and then used virt-install (rather than virt-manager - I like automation) to set up the vm. It hangs at some point.

Hey all, I have sort of an odd request for you today in regards to Kickstart configuration. I have recently created a kickstart configuration file to better standardize the configuration aspect of my server installations. I am having one issue and that is distributing a script (yum-check) via the kickstart file (in %post section). Parts of the script get written to the correct file

Hello, I need to automate installation of CentOS 7.0 using PXE and kickstart. My server is diskless, I'm installing CentOS on a 25GB LUN on a FC SAN with 4 paths. This LUN is the only one accessible by the server. Anaconda processes successfully the installation. But on reboot, I get stuck on a prompt after BIOS. I think I have an issue with storage configuration / bootloader

I've got a RAID card (3ware 9650SE-2LP) that wasn't supported by the in-kernel driver until 2.6.19+ Since CentOS 5.0 is based on 2.6.18-8.el5 is was looking for a way to incorporate their driver from the website so I wouldn't have to use the "linux dd" kernel option all the time. (trying to automate as much as possible using kickstart, scripts, etc). Through reading about

On 2019-10-09 14:58, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 02:47:19PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Could someone enlighten me about the following file: >> >> /etc/subuid >> >> ? This file appears to be owned by "setup" package. This is CentOS 7 system, >> and until now these files if existed were never changed. Today I have added

Hi all I'm guessing this is a little off topic but here goes... We use PXELINUX and kickstart to automate our RHEL deployments and updates. Recently we started using PXELINUX/memdisk and an MS-DOS image to update the workstation BIOS'es. After selecting <F12> (network boot) and picking the update BIOS option, the BIOS is flashed, BIOS configuration made standard and then the