Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
Unfortunately I didn't keep a proper note of my PXEboot attempt, but IIRC the problem was that install.img was not found, although I had links to it in several places.
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:49:48 +0200 Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.
Use cobbler, it does all the magic for you and things just work.
Jure Pečar wrote:
Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.
Use cobbler, it does all the magic for you and things just work.
I've tried cobbler, in fact used it successfully. In my view, it might make sense if one has dozens of machines, but isn't really appropriate if you have one or two, like me. It simply adds an additional layer of complication.
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.
Yep. Several times, in fact.
If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
I really just followed my procedure for netbooting CentOS 5, but changed the directory paths.
0. Set up local http mirror of CentOS 6 1. Set up tftp server; make CentOS 6 pxe kernel and initrd.img available 2. Use PXE menu to point to right kernel, initrd.img, and boot options 3. Set up DHCP server to point to the correct next-server and filename
Paul Heinlein wrote:
I really just followed my procedure for netbooting CentOS 5, but changed the directory paths.
- Set up local http mirror of CentOS 6
- Set up tftp server; make CentOS 6 pxe kernel and initrd.img available
- Use PXE menu to point to right kernel, initrd.img, and boot options
- Set up DHCP server to point to the correct next-server and filename
That's essentially what I did. I just tried it again, and I saw that it halted at "waiting for hardware to initialize...", so maybe it is a hardware issue. I was trying to install CentOS-6.0 on an HP MicroServer. (As I explained, after trying PXEboot I actually installed it by using a USB stick.)
The strange thing is that it succeeded with CentOS-5.6, on the same machine, and I don't see any relevant difference.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
Unfortunately I didn't keep a proper note of my PXEboot attempt, but IIRC the problem was that install.img was not found, although I had links to it in several places.
Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you having?
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you having?
I didn't use kickstart, because I want to use the partitioning I've already set up, and I was frightened ks might delete my partitions.
I only wanted a very basic system set up on my partitions, and ks seemed designed for more complicated setups.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you having?
I didn't use kickstart, because I want to use the partitioning I've already set up, and I was frightened ks might delete my partitions.
I only wanted a very basic system set up on my partitions, and ks seemed designed for more complicated setups.
You can specify the partitions with it. We certainly do.
mark
On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.
Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you having?
I didn't use kickstart, because I want to use the partitioning I've already set up, and I was frightened ks might delete my partitions.
I only wanted a very basic system set up on my partitions, and ks seemed designed for more complicated setups.
If you don't specify the partitioning in the kickstart then that part of the process becomes manual.
I do that for server installs, while desktop installs are fully automated.
-Ross
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot.
I haven't succeeded in installing CentOS-6 on my HP MicroServer by PXEboot yet, despite several tries. It hangs during "waiting for hardware to initialize".
Is there any way of finding out which particular piece of hardware is causing the problem?
I've tried adding noapic and acpi=off to the kernel line but these didn't help.
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