Carlos Santana wrote:
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.
CS.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana neubyr@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:
- Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very
quick and painless.
- 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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Hi Carlos,
What version of VMware are you using ? I can confirm that if you are using VMware Infrastructure 3 you can mount both DVD and CD ISO's and just reference /dev/cdrom I believe this is the same for all other versions of VMware as well but I have not confirmed this.
You should definitely be able to access DVD's easily from VMware
Good Luck