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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

The post section of the kickstart configuration file I have been using in CentOS4 looks like this: %post mount centosmirror:/var/www/html/ks /mnt /mnt/ks/post/post.sh > /root/post_install.log 2>&1 umount /mnt I tried to do my first CentOS 5 kickstart installation today using an identical post section, but the post install script did not run. After instrumenting the

Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, >> they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? > > I'm

When booting the 5.3 i386 netinstall iso and performing a ks install, the server pauses for a very long time at the "Retrieving images/stage2.img" screen and the apache log where the http served tree exists shows it looking for: ...File does not exist: /var/www/html/CentOS/images/product.img ...File does not exist: /var/www/html/CentOS/disc1 multiple times until finally it gets going.

Hi I'm having a problem with setting up a kickstart environment based on CentOS 5.2 x86_64, on a Sun X2200 M2 server (both the server and the client in the kickstart environment are Sun X2200 M2 systems): the first attempt to load stage2.img fails with the error screen: "unable to retrieve http://192.168.11.10/source/images/stage2.img". Pressing the "OK" button brings up

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

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

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

Hello List, Due to a problem with CentOS 5 and one of our firewalls I am having to disable tcp window scaling to stop network connections grinding to a halt. I am also trying to Kickstart CentOS 5 machines through the firewall so need to disable window scaling at install time. I have added to the kickstart file %pre echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling But the install still hangs

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),

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

Hi, Any one know how the Centos 5 kickstart initrd.img was built? I'll be very appreciated if any light can be shed on this topic. The basic problem to be solved here is: how to build a custom vmlinuz+initrd.img for Centos 5 kickstart with my own custom built kernel? I am not sure mkinitrd is the right tool for this purpose? If do, which are the modules I should include with

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

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

hello, I have a situation where I am using PXE and kickstart to install my machines. My set up is as follows: i have a cobbler server which is also an mrepo mirror doing the booting. my mrepo tree has both disc1 and disc2 loop mounted, and RPMS.os symlinks both the discs contens to generate the unified os tree. This all works fine. My issue is with the kickstart, if i use the disc1 as the url

I'm trying to set up a custom installation of CentOS using kickstart i tried many thing from how to's and tutorial web pages but nothing worked ;( Here is my USB key tree : |-- CentOS | |-- all my rpms | `-- last rpm |-- TRANS.TBL |-- boot.cat |-- boot.msg |-- custom.iso |-- general.msg |-- images | |-- README | |-- TRANS.TBL | |-- boot.iso | |-- diskboot.img | |-- minstg2.img | |--

This may be more appropriate for an upstream list. That said... I'm doing kickstart setups of CentOS 5. My kickstart config includes a network configuration item. Depending on options passed at boot-time, the network config item may or may not include a --hostname option, but always specifies eth0. When I do a kickstart install, I notice that even though I am using 'interactive'

How does one use virt-install and kickstart ? I've seen others have success but I've had no joy thus far. BTW, my interactive virt-installs for centos6 guests work just fine AND I can do unattended kickstarts for vms by booting from centos6 install dvd and typing the kickstart commands from the boot: prompt. However, kickstart commands in --extra-args when used w/ virt-install just

Hi all, I'm testing new "minimal" kickstarts files for CentOS6 and CentOS7. The CentOS6 kickstart works fine, but i've a dependency problem with the CentOS7 equivalent. In my kickstarts, i use network install with following repos/packages (for the repo, the only change is version number 6 <-> 7): url --url="http://mirror.in2p3.fr/ftp/linux/CentOS/7/os/x86_64/"

Hi, Any one have succeeded in firing up a sshd daemon when a machine is being kickstarted? I know VNC can be setup to minitor the kickstart process, but it is too limited and so I can not see the console and other screens with ALT+Fn keys. If sshd daemon can be setup at this stage, then we can remotely ssh into the being kickstarted client(s). and directly see what things happen during %pre,