On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with
cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an
online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://<server>/<dir>'.
I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all
ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights?

Based on your original post, it seems that you want to install a system via the network versus from a CD boot disk, correct?

If so, here's how I do it:

1) On a host machine, download the CentOS DVD to some location on the machine.

2) Install the vsftpd package.

3) mkdir /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86

4) mount -o loop /path/to/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86

5) service vsftpd start

6) Edit your kickstart url to point to the location above: url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86

7) Copy the kickstart file to /var/ftp/pub/kickstart001.ks

7) From a web browser or ftp client, retrieve the boot.iso file from the host machine in the Images directory. Or you can just cd to the /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 directory on the host machine and copy the boot.iso from there to your VMWare server.

8) On the VMWare server, set the boot.iso as the CD ROM image.

9) Boot the target server. When the grub prompt appears: linux ks=ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/kickstart001.ks

10) Sit back :)