MrKiwi spake the following on 5/29/2007 3:27 PM:
Jean Figarella wrote:
joseph tacuyan wrote:
On 5/29/07, *Dave* <dmehler26@woh.rr.com mailto:dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote:
Hello, Does anyone have a guide for setting up an nfs server forunattended deployment of centos5? Basically what i want to do is boot a system from CD media, pass a boot parameter nfs, and ks= options then walk away, the box goes out to the nfs server, finds the kickstart file, reads, and does it. I've got several machines and i'd rather not do manual installs. Thanks. Dave.
Hi,
Generate a ks.cfg file either using from previous working machine or just run system-config-kickstart, then have your installation image exported on nfs server as well you're new ks.cfg file, from you're would be kickstart client you can boot and issue:
ks=nfsserver:/export/ks.cfg
HTH,
joseph
_______________________________________________Doesn't Centos 5 gives you the option of adding yum repos to the kickstart file? So if you add the updates repo then it installs an updated os from the get go? Therefor you wouldn't need the yum update -y at the end?
Jean
I've always wondered about that, and also about the option of creating a (for example) 4.5 CD (ie the 4.0 iso with the updated packages included/replaced so that the end result is a 4.5 machine even before you do a 'yum update'.
Can anyone shed some light?
MrKiwi
You can download the 4.5 CD's or the DVD already done. You only need the updates from after the freeze.