[CentOS] kickstart install using url location

[Carlos Santana]

Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it.
It has an option only for CD ROM. :(

I may not go for the second option (up-to-date with rsync) in order to
get consistent installations. Although having latest code is nice, its
not our requirement for this project.

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CS.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kwan Lowe<kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks nate.
>> So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3?
>>
>
> It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead.  There are a
> couple approaches:
>
> 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very
> quick and painless.
>
> 2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it
> allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the
> repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to
> install the latest version at once.
>
> For the first case:
> mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86
>
> Your kickstart url would look like:
>
>   url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/
>
>
> In the second case, follow the instructions here:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos
>
>
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