[CentOS] CentOs6 - Ltsp set up kickstart server

[Les Mikesell]

On 8/12/11 3:41 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> following the advise from Les concerning CentOs - ltsp,
> I'm now trying to set up a *kickstart *server, as I will have to install 14 ltsp
> servers.
>
> I must admit the number 14 is not my only motivation, in a first attempt I
> downloaded 7 cd's -and got stuck
> when installing from nr 6 , and made 2 attempts installing from the dvd.
>
> So no more cd's for me.
>
> I'm following this guide :
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch25_:_Network-Based_Linux_Installation
>
> and my problem is that I never worked with ftp before, so how could I download
> all the files that I see under
>
> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/6.0.0-32bit/i386/
>
> So far I only downloaded stuf if there was a download button around. :-[

That's not the one you want - it is an ancient version for fedora 6.  The Centos 
based version has an EL suffix:

ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/iso/

You should be able to click on that link or type it into a browser and click on 
each iso image to download.  The easy way to install from the CD set is to 
download them all into a directory exported via NFS, burn only the 1st one to 
boot from, type 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt and do an nfs install 
giving it the server and directory path to the iso images.  The installer knows 
how to deal with the images without extracting anything from them.  You should 
also be able to kickstart into an nfs install but I'd do one by hand first to 
get started.   And do a 'yum update' on it before you go much farther.  There 
may be some quirks you have to work out to get it up to 5.6.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com