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i'm running on vmware system and HP proliant DL360 G5 servers on wmware, on boot i have the following message: ----------------------------- Applying Intel Microcode update: don't know to make device "cpu/microcode" [OK] ----------------------------- and on a HP proliant DL360 G5 server , on boot i have too the following message: ----------------------------- Applying

It's possible to mount cdrom in rescue mode ? because with centos 4.4 in linux rescue mode, the device "cdrom" doesn't exist -- Denis MACHARD dmachard at fr.netcentrex.net denis.machard at enst-bretagne.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

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

Hello, I've been trying to kickstart a install centos from a USB memory stick. Everything with that is working fine, but I seem to be having a problem with the ks.cfg file. When I boot the install media from the usb drive, the the boot prompt I type linux ks=hd:/dev/uba1/ks.cfg Then I peek at the logs and it even says * getting kickstart file * getting kickstart file from harddrive *

I am trying to update a computer from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. My plan is to do this using PXE and a kickstart file. I am implementing the use of an FTP and DHCP server. The computers I am updating are diskless workstations, meaning they have no hard drives and they boot off of the network. I have configured my dhcp.conf file, my ks.cfg (kickstart file), my tftp server and so on, but

Hi, We dont run DHCP in our environment where I build our servers, is it required to get a first IP address to hit my kickstart server running on my xandros debian laptop? Just been a couple years since I last did some kickstart builds and I dont have system-config-kickstart running on a machine here in my home lab. I can turn on DHCP on my linux laptop perhaps, but just wanted to check in

I'm trying to setup a kickstart server that will use ftp. I created a user account and put the ISO images in /home/centos. I created a directory /home/centos/disc1 and mounted the first ISO image there. When I try to do the ftp install I keep getting an error "Unable to retrieve ftp://my.ftpserver.com//home/centos/disc1/CentOS/base/netstg2.img" I tried different versions of the

When I use my kickstart file (which works on 5.1 x86_64) with 5.2 I get the following error. I put my kickstart file at the end. Do I have something incomaptible in the file? jerry -------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py", line 341, in lookupHostname ret = isys.pumpNetDevice(dev.get('device'),

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

I am trying to a install Centos 5.1 32-bit Xen HVM DomU onto a Centos 5.1 64bit DomU with the default xen installed and the kickstart hangs at random points during the install process. Sometimes retrieving the image, sometimes formatting the filesystem, sometimes installing the packages,etc. I tried upgrading to xen 3.2 and encounter the same problem before rebuilding back to stock Centos 5.1

i sent this to the kistart list also - but i thought i may try my luck here also ;) Hi In my kix file i have LANG set to the following lang en_GB langsupport --default=en_GB en_GB however on install the box is # env | grep LANG LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 # cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_GB.UTF-8:en_GB:en" How can i make it so the default LANG is en_GB

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, I try to mount the file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp but I have a error [root at localhost ~]# cp /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img /root/ [root at localhost ~]# mv initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.gz [root at localhost ~]# gunzip initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.gz [root at localhost ~]# mount initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp /tmp -o loop [root at localhost ~]# mount: you must specify the

I have a line like: lang en_US.UTF-8 in my kickstart file. However it stops on that screen to prompt me. Everything else works fine... I am using centos 4.6. Is this line no longer correct? I am sure I got it from a anaconda file to start with. Jerry

Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://<server>/<dir>'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? Thanks, CS.

Hi All, This has to be something simple....but it's really busting my chops. We have a PXE boot server that is used for initial installation of a number of operating systems and it works well. However the CentOS 5.1 x86_64 install is seriously broken. We've made the PXE boot images available from "centos/5/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/" in the tftp boot etc. We've rsynced

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

Hi, We are using PXELinux 1.75, ISC DHCP 3.0pl1 and atftp-0.6 to deploy RH 7.3 across a number of Dell Rackmount systems. I would like to set things up so that the RH boot kernel grabs the IP Address, gateway aand DNS address from the first DHCP request with 'ipappend 1', but so far have had no success, Kickstart issue a seconed request after booting the kernel. Here are my configs:

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

Hi, Thanks a lot for so many helpful responses. The fix is pretty straight: just mount /dev/pts again at the chrooted %post environment where my original sshd fires up from. One command 'Mount -t devpts -o rw,gid=5,mode=620 devpts /dev/pts' or just a bare 'mount /dev/pts' command fix the problem since the devpts entry is in fstab already. I also hacked image stage2.img to