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I ran into an issue when trying to create VMs in CentOS 5.5 with VLANs. My setup is as follows: -CentOS 5.5 x64 xen kernel -LVM for storage -Kickstart file hosted on apache in /var/www/html/ -VM start file in /etc/xen/ -VLAN100 interface with public IP, VLAN200 interface with private IP My vm start file is as follows: kernel = "/boot/vm-inst/vmlinuz" ramdisk =

Greetings, I am trying to follos the procedure as outlined in: http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article/35-linux/128-building-a-custom-centos-6-kickstart-disc-part-1 I am using Cendos minimal ISO to build a custom installer and Live CD (with addition of NTP, samba and some custom application with dependencies) According to the above link: "In RHEL/CentOS 6, this file is no longer

Kickstart fails for statically built custom booting kernel, although the custom kernel is built form the same version stock kernel source. My anaconda and kernel source are both of stock versions on Centos 5. At the kickstart 'F3' screen, the following error messages appear: Modules to insert tg3 ... ... ERROR: no network devices in choose network device! ERROR: no network drivers

Hello, I have a simple shell script that I use to generate an iso installer depending on the release version that I want. The thing is that I extract isolinux and menu.c32 from the syslinux rpm of the latest redhat release. The reason I am doing it this way is because of the This is what does it: copymenu32() { # $ cat /local/kickstart/templates/os-updates.txt # RedHat-5.8|20120425

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

Hello! I would like to shrink my installation media restricted only to necessary packages based on my kickstart file. So I am looking for an application/script which select rpms and those dependencies based on a kickstart file. If just display them that is ok does not need to copy/download anything else. Is there any such utility? I've found a site which helps to select rpms based on my

Hi all, Someone played with kickstart bonding with centos 6.4 ? CentOS 6.4, as upstream now support ifcae bonding in kickstart network section. I've an issue with configuring a second bonding iface in kicstart on CentOS 6.4. The first bonding (bond0) works as espected but the second is not configured during installation. I've a 6 nic server (two for "puclic" network, two for

Dear All, > It seems like kickstart is what you are looking for.? > Is this what you were trying to do? Yes, kickstart is what I?m looking for. Let me detail my provisioning process: * Provision a VM with standard CentOS 7 NetInstall ISO & my post script. The file system is created on top of LVM * Export entire VM as custom ISO image to be loaded into physical hardware *

I have added a few custom RPM's to my CentOS 5.2 CD, dropped a kickstart.cfg file in the root of the CD, and now want to change the isolinux.cfg in the boot.iso so that it will automatically do a kickstart install when the CD boots up. I am using buildinstall to make the ISO. I edited the isolinux.cfg in /isolinux in my CentOS 5.2 distribution tree off of which I am building my ISO. But

I have successfully installed several CentOS 5 VMs on a CentOS 5 Xen DOM0 using a local repo and kickstart files with Virt Manager. Using the same machine and setup, I have tried a scripted install using same repos and kickstart file with virt-install. The only difference I can see is that with virt-install I'm disabling the display (no VNC). The install goes well but the new VM

I was given a custom CentOS 5.4 DVD, containing some Digium software for one of our customers. I need to turn this burned DVD into an image that can be written to a USB thumb drive. First, I ripped the DVD to an ISO image. That part works OK, my testing VM can load and run the custom kickstart script on the image. After totally frying my unetbootin install, I decided to try and use isohybrid

I'm creating a custom install / respin ISO with updated packages and a kickstart - starting from CentOS 6.5 minimal install DVD. I'm generally following the directions from http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article/35-linux/128-building-a-custom-centos-6-kickstart-disc-part-1 . I can create the iso, boot, have it find the installation media (it prints "Found local installation

Hey List, I apologize for how broad this may be, but hopefully someone here can help me out. I need to make custom kickstart installers to be used in the field to install microservers (Intel NUCs, EFI boot) that don't have optical drives and may not have internet connections. I can make a custom ISO just fine using the pretty common steps, specifically following what's here:

Hi, I'm looking for "the best" way to do a custom installation from CD/DVD media. My company sells hardware appliances with our software pre-loaded. Doing so requires that we ship an ISO installation media to the hardware manufacturer who installs it onto the boxes, then ships them out. We're currently using a solution that will no longer work for us going forward, and we

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone have any thoughts on why anaconda might be prompting me to reinitialize the disk during the kickstart of a Centos6.4 install on hyperV when a) the kickstart file contains "zerombr" as referred to in the installation guide[1] b) installation proceeds with no prompt on KVM hypervisors and succeeds? I have read the release notes[2]/tech

Hello! I would like to use the new bonding feature of kickstart in release 6.4. My setup is one bonding interface (bond0) with two (eth0, eth1) ethernet cards. I am using two VLANs on bonding interface so I have no IP for bond0 but have IPs for bond0.1 and bond0.2. If I create config by hand it works. Now I would like to convert my kickstart file using the new bonding feature. The kickstart

Hi all.... I had posted hte following on teh centos forums, and thought there might be additional people in here who do not browse those forum, so after 4 days I am posting over here as well (sorry for the double - but figured after 4 days it was safe to do so). Hi there.... I am trying to make a custom centos server cd that will essentially do the following: throw the disk in, boot the machine,

I am running CentOS 5.4 (both i386 and x86_64 - different physical machines)... I've been able to get Fedora 11 running as a Xen guest - no trouble. However, I have had no luck with Fedora 12. My kickstart file lists /boot as ext3 - but for whatever reason Fedora 12 insists on making /boot ext4. I do have a bare metal machine running Fedora 12, so I thought "let me try to put

Hi again. I'm pleased to say that my experimentation with ocfs2 has been very successful and I'm considering doing some real work with it. My current question is related to virt-manager and the use of kickstart to install paravirtualised domU's. I'm happily doing fully-virtualised installs with this tool but due to poor network performance I thought it time to do some

CentOS-Virt, I ran into an error attempting to offer two boot options using libvirt with kvm. I wanted the virtual to first attempt to boot from its "disk" and if that didn't work, fall back on netboot (we kickstart install). This argument is "-boot cn". If the disk you provide is of type IDE this will probably work for you, unless you use "-drive" with the