[CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

[Scot P. Floess]

+1

I use Cobbler/KOAN all the time...  And setting up a bare bones VM - super 
trivial...

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> On 08/09/11 4:02 PM, Craig White wrote:
>>> you have a complete kickstart script written for you already...
>>>
>>> /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
>>
>> speaking of kickstart...   I may need to setup a portable kickstart
>> server for CentOS 6 , and I've never really messed with it...  how do
>> you supply the ks.cfg file when you're PXE booting and have no CD or floppy?
>>
>> is there a good how-to on setting up kickstart servers for EL6 ?
>>
>> redhat can't be serious when they say...
>>
>> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-netboot-pxe-config.html
>>
>>    30.2. PXE Boot Configuration
>>
>>    The next step is to copy the files necessary to start the
>>    installation to the tftp server so they can be found when the client
>>    requests them. The tftp server is usually the same server as the
>>    network server exporting the installation tree.
>>
>>    (end of section)
>>
>>
>> like, *WHAT* files??   does anyone PROOF READ this stuff ?!?  (yeah, I
>> know, this is upstream's problem, not CentOS...)
>
> You might want to look at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
>
> Regards,
>
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