At Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:34:15 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Robert Heller wrote:
I just tried a CentOS 7 install to a laptop over PXE and it failed in jus=
t the
same way as for the VM.
So, is it not possible to install CentOS 7 via PXE? Or is there something missing? I just copied the images under os/x86_64/images/ to the tftpd directory (/var/lib/tftpboot/) and included in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default this section:
label centos75-64 MENU LABEL CentOS 7.5 x86_64 kernel centos75x86_64vmlinuz append initrd=3Dcentos75x86_64initrd.img
Do I need anything more?
Things seem to die/fail at some point after initializing the graphics fra=
me
buffer. Is there a way to do a non-graphical install? I have a keyboard=
and
really know how to use it and don't need some silly ("friendly"?) GUI to install Linux (I don't need hand-holding).
Yes, you can ask for a text installer by including "inst.text" (no =
quotes) on the APPEND line of pxe configuration file.
That said, the text installer in EL7 is considerably less functional =
than the graphical installer.
I am not sure if I really agree with that... I ended up using a thumb drive, but needed to resort to using the shell to get the disk set up the way I wanted. *I* don't like GUI installers, since they generally impose limits on how to install the system.
My suggestion, fwiw, is to write up a kickstart file and use that =
instead; it's easiest if you have a local web server that handles =
unauthenticated plain-text http. Your entry would would like this:
label centos75-64 MENU LABEL CentOS 7.5 x86_64 kernel centos75x86_64vmlinuz append initrd=3Dcentos75x86_64initrd.img inst.ks=3Dhttp://192.168.110.14= 4/ks/el7.ks inst.text
But you can try a the text installer and see where that gets you...
When I install the VM later today, I'll try that, but might end up resorting to using the disk image instead.
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