On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
how do you supply the ks.cfg file when you're PXE booting and have no CD or floppy?
ummm ... with DHCP, handing out the correct boot vmlinuz image under PXE for the MAC address in question, and kernel command line arguments, one of which is the location of the ks.cfg, and of the initrd, usually through a 'next' server [being a 'next' server, because it provides the next needed information] again through the TFTPD, DHCPD and (usually) FTPD or HTTPD
It has not changed for years, and in all honesty, as much of what is happening is burned into 'state machines, inside of boot roms on network interfaces, it will NEVER change substantially. See, HPA's work with SYSLINUX
It is fully tested by me under CentOS 6, as part of my install testing -- so-called wire installs are how I always install
is there a good how-to on setting up kickstart servers for EL6 ?
We installed perhaps ten units that way today under C6
I've pretty well covered everything that can go wrong in such a process, starting a decade ago
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/pxe-install/ http://www.owlriver.com/tips/hands-off/ http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tftp-xinetd/ http://www.owlriver.com/tips/centos-upgradeany/ http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/ http://www.owlriver.com/tips/minimal-installer/
http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf (Chip Shabazian)
and of course the LTSP (Jim McQuillan) and K12LTSP (gone dark, and owned by a domain squatter, now-a-days) projects' work in Linux space
redhat can't be serious when they say...
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati...
like, *WHAT* files?? does anyone PROOF READ this stuff ?!? (yeah, I know, this is upstream's problem, not CentOS...)
There are no typos that I see there
All the pointers you need to get started are in that paragraph. All URL's above are 'primary sources' and orininal content on how to do it
-- Russ herrold