On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you having?
I didn't use kickstart, because I want to use the partitioning I've already set up, and I was frightened ks might delete my partitions.
I only wanted a very basic system set up on my partitions, and ks seemed designed for more complicated setups.
If you don't specify the partitioning in the kickstart then that part of the process becomes manual.
I do that for server installs, while desktop installs are fully automated.
-Ross