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Hi, all. I'm trying to customize a CentOS installation cd, but got trouble with kickstart. I want to use dialog[1] for command line based user interface, but it can't display correctly in kickstart with CentOS 5.5. Same ks file works with CentOS 5.3 (both i386 and x86_64). What's the different between CentOS 5.3/5.5? I can't find it in release notes. And how can i fix it? Thanks

Hi I am looking for an example of a kickstart file for a simple, minimal server install. I don't need any graphical apps just ssh, httpd and development tools. It seems that even when I specify only the packages I want many other packages are installed making the install very large. Any links to guides or example kickstart files would be great. Thanks, Andrew Zahn

Hey Everyone, I was wondering if anyone has managed to do a network install where the kickstart file is located either on an FTP site (which is also where the packages are stored) or on a USB flash drive. I've tried starting the installer with "linux ks=/dev/sda/ks.cfg" or "linux ks=/dev/sda1/ks.cfg" or "linux ks=ftp://what.ever.Ip.address/pub/ks.cfg" but

I am trying to use kickstart for automated builds from a DVD. Some of the machines have DVD's drives and some have CDRom drives only. With the CDRom only machines I would like to plug in an external DVD drive via USB and use this to kickstart. The DVD only machines work correctly with a isolinux.cfg as label test kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192

Hi, I was at the Puppet talk at Oscon and I would like to try using Puppet for PXE on RHEL machines and I was wondering if there are standard minimal Kickstart recipes from which Puppet can then take over. Thanks, Jason van Zyl jason at maven.org

Dear Friends, I have centos 6.2 64 bit os in my dell server. When I try to install centos or scientific linux using NFS so it is not working and getting me error = "unable to download kickstart file". My kickstart file configuration is : #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T #version=DEVEL # Firewall configuration firewall --disabled # Install OS instead of upgrade install # Use NFS

Hi, Is is possible to use kickstart file to install rhel from dvd drive? Mainly idea is to clone one anaconda.ks file to about twenty machines.? examples? ftp/http/dhcp is not possible due to network limitations. -- Eero

Here's what I'm currently doing in ks.cfg: %pre #!/bin/sh echo -n "Please enter blah: " read blah echo $blah > /tmp/ks-blah I know that "read blah" works fine, because after that I see the variable in the /tmp file. The problem is, echo doesn't seem to work at this stage. This pretty much kills the idea of an interactive %pre script. I was thinking to

I can get the kickstart command line with /proc/cmdline it looks something like xxxxx ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg xxxxxx in the %pre sections of my ks.cfg I was wanting to extract the IP from the ks= part. I was going to utilize the "tr" command but its not available in %pre. how can I go about extracting the IP address from with in the %pre section I was going to do something

>Bryan J. Smith wrote: > >>Yes. DHCP is the successor to BOOTP that offers a superset of its >>functionality. But in the original BOOTP functionality, you would pass >>the filename the BOOTP client would retrieve from a TFTP server so it >>could boot. The file was then booted. >> >>This is how we have been installing workstations/servers in the UNIX

Hello list, I try to do an automated network installation of centos 5.2, following the redat documentation at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/pt-install-info.html However, when installing I get promptet for various things, like which network interface I would like to use for installation, or the location of the install medium. But thats not what I

Howdy, Was wondering if anyone on the list has successfully created a kickstart cd. I get the thing burnt, looks good, I can browse all the files, but when I actually boot from it I can't get it to admit the ks.cfg exists. I *have* been successful with kickstart over http; just can't seem to make it happen from the cd. Pointers appreciated, I've been mostly looking at the

Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb drivers for kickstart installations? I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path. I use the exact same boot options with CentOS 4 without any problems. What am I missing with CentOS 5? Thanks for any tips. -- Jiann-Ming Su

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 have a kickstart file that basically runs the following: install nfs --server=nfserver.blah.local --dir=/vol/updts/staging/CentOS_4.3 #include %some_file.cfg I want to be able to access or "include" a file on the nfs share not the local CDROM I've got this on. How do I do that? === Al

I am trying to add a kickstart file to my automatic installation and make it more automatic. However, when I comment out the append ks=... line in the example below, the computer boots properly. If I uncomment that line, then I get a kernel panic: VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 09:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root

I would like to how how I can take the CentOS 4.4 Server Cd for example and modify the ISO to put on my anaconda-ks.cfg file and then modify the kernel parameters to automatically load the anaconda-ks.cfg file so that I can create a CD that I just stick into my machine it will format the drive, install the basic configuration I like without asking any questions. I need to install like 20

I am new to kickstart file, but my understanding of the process is that I am supposed to be able to take the anaconda-ks-cfg file from the /root directory, copy it to an accessible location, and point the install disk to it, and it should reproduce the install I did originally. I used the 6.5 minimal install ISO, copied and renamed the ks.cfg. It is seen as a kickstart file, but it refuses

Hey, someone just told me yesterday that I can give my machine an initial IP address, gateway, dns server, and netmask via command line like this: linux ks=http://www.mydomain.com/kick.ks ip=192.168.1.5 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns=192.168.1.10 Is this true? Is the syntax wrong or right? If so, and I call my kick.ks file and it has install cdrom it'll pull the files

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