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Hi all, I've set up a CentOS flash stick using the LiveCD tools, then dumping that onto flash with a persistent overlay - instructions here: http://wtf.geek.nz/?blog/2009/12/08/how-to-make-a-useful-centos-utility-flash-stick This gets me to a prompt in which I can do recovery stuff, but I'm curious to know if it's possible to initiate a kickstart install onto the local disks from

hello there, I wonder if you could help me: I am trying to install 50 diskless servers using PXE / kickstart, it all starts well, DHCP server issues a dynamic address, tftp issues the kickstart file, the client starts reading the KS file but at some point anaconda brings up an unhandled exception related to Python when reading Comps.xml?? What is really unsettling is the fact that if I plug

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),

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'),

Greetings all, I'm trying to create a CentOS 4.4 kickstart CD (not a network install), duplicating what I've done for Fedora Core 3. I am having a cirular dependency for initscripts, which causes initscripts not to be installed (no /etc/inittab when the boot gets to INIT) The cascade is: initscripts-7.39.25.EL-1.centos4 requires /sbin/nash /sbin/nash is in mkinitrd-4.2.1.8-1

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'

-----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 fellow CentOS sysadmins, I run a small multiplayer card game with around 500 users at peak times. The client is in Flash and the server is in Perl. The Perl server binds to port 8080, i.e. only 1 instance of it can be started (important detail). The Perl server poll()s TCP-sockets and forks only once - at the startup by calling this method: sub daemonize { die "Can not

Hi, this is a side question to my other thread regarding dracut-initqueue network issues. Once I'm thrown into a dracut emergency shell (PXE booted system): How can I restart the kickstart installation process manually from there? Can I at all? Background is, that I'd like to add some debugging output to some of the dracut scripts and rerun the installation process to see why it

Hi, I am trying to get my kickstart file that worked under 5.1 to work under 5.2 centos x86_64. This is the error that I get. On the screen it says Exception occured and gives me the option to save it. This is that file. I dont see any odd that would cause it to crash. Can anyone help. My kickstart file is in the mix below. Seems to be related to network, my line seems fine (I think) for

Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com> --- builder/website/debian.preseed | 2 +- builder/website/index | 120 +++++----- builder/website/index.asc | 120 +++++----- customize/customize_run.mli | 2 +- daemon/mount.c | 2 +- fish/test-file-attrs.sh | 10 +- generator/c.ml | 2 +- guestfs-release-notes.txt | 520

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

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Is it possible to embed more than one kickstart that will match the > installation interface's MAC address. What I want is to use boot system > using virtual CD (using iLO) to install multiple systems but matching > kickstart conf file will be used with the matching MAC address. I would look at creating special programs for syslinux

On 02/03/2015 10:28 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Is there a way to use kickstart to boot a machine into a manual setup > process? Basically what I'm getting to is this, the machine doesn't not > have a CD drive in it (nor can I add one), but I can boot it via kickstart. > The install media is on the network. What I'd like to do is boot this > machine up and rather

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-redhat-config-kickstart.html To use Kickstart Configurator, you must be running the X Window System. To start Kickstart Configurator, select Applications (the main menu on the panel) => System Tools => Kickstart, or type the command /usr/sbin/system-config-kickstart. Can't find it. Now my system has:

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".

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

Nope, it doesn't add it to the kernel boot parameters. That was the first thing I checked. As for the bootproto ... DUH. I didn't check that. :) That being solved, yeah it's not bringing up the add-in card now when it boots up. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Jason Warr <jason at warr.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:42:57 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner

Ok, so some of this now works, but I'm still having problems. With the bootif option, the system now correctly configures and uses the same interface to get its kickstart file. However, when the system is done and boots up, the interfaces are still messed up. So this is what I have in the kickstart file: # On-Board Port 1 with public IP configuration network --noipv6 --onboot yes --bootproto

And after picking this back up this morning .... still no dice. I have now blacklisted the one module that would enumerate the add-in ethernet port so that is no longer an issue during the kickstart process, however the following is now happening: - kickstart completes successfully using the machine's physical port 2 (or eth1) which is on a subnet with DHCP - when the system reboots, it