On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote:
The guides for a LAN install I've found all want to do an automated kickstart install. Are there any guides that explain how to use eg. CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso for an interactive PXE installation?
I think I understand the DHCP config and I've got tftpd installed on my CentOS 5 server and see the empty /tftpboot directory. I'm guessing I need to unpack some of the files in the iso image into /tftpboot in some special layout and add some files from /usr/lib/syslinux. What's not clear is what files in the image go where in the tftpboot system, and what the menu stanza should look like in the menu file.
LABEL centos-6-text.x86_64 MENU LABEL CentOS 6 x86_64 text installer KERNEL images/centos/6/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=images/centos/6/x86_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=100000 text
The images/ directory lives in /tftpboot on our tftp server.
The vmlinuz and initrd.img both come from the images/pxeboot directory in the install tree, e.g.,
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/
Of course, you might not want a text installation, given that it's braindead compared to its graphical counterpart...