Hey folks,
I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart. So I cannot boot the Centos 5.4 net install CD.
Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does not look simple.
I'm just shooting htis out ther eon the odd chance someone gets it soon nad knows of a really easy howto for this
thanks!
2010/2/28 Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com:
Hey folks,
I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart. So I cannot boot the Centos 5.4 net install CD.
Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does not look simple.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE , maybe it's a bit easier to download full centos dvd and install from it?
-- Eero
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE , maybe it's a bit easier to download full centos dvd and install from it?
It's a hardware issue with the server drive. Having said that, the CentOS net install CD is pretty small, so server's drive might read it enough to get going...
On 28 February 2010 17:42, Ian Murray murrayie@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
It's a hardware issue with the server drive. Having said that, the CentOS net install CD is pretty small, so server's drive might read it enough to get going...
Any virtual drive support in the ILO / similar?
Ben
Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does not look simple.
Sure, http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installat...
Also, if you have an OS on the server, you can tweak grub to boot into install and pull from a url instead of disc, and look for a ks file as well.
jlc
On 28 Feb 2010, at 16:51, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart.
Had a similar problem and easiest solution in the end was to buy a USB CD drive from local computer store.
Good luck!
Ben
Benjamin Donnachie a écrit :
On 28 Feb 2010, at 16:51, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart.
Had a similar problem and easiest solution in the end was to buy a USB CD drive from local computer store.
Good luck!
Ben _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Try to install CentOS via a Pendrive ;)
2010/3/1 Georghy fusco@wanagain.net:
Benjamin Donnachie a écrit :
On 28 Feb 2010, at 16:51, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart.
Had a similar problem and easiest solution in the end was to buy a USB CD drive from local computer store.
Good luck!
Ben _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Try to install CentOS via a Pendrive ;)
Sounds like good solution: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/ImageFlash
Any experiences on this?
-- Eero
Eero Volotinen a écrit :
2010/3/1 Georghy fusco@wanagain.net:
Benjamin Donnachie a écrit :
On 28 Feb 2010, at 16:51, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart.
Had a similar problem and easiest solution in the end was to buy a USB CD drive from local computer store.
Good luck!
Ben _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Try to install CentOS via a Pendrive ;)
Sounds like good solution: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/ImageFlash
Any experiences on this?
-- Eero _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I just created a custom USB key. try something like this : http://smorgasbork.com/linux/35-linux/59-building-a-custom-centos-5-kickstar... but instead of creating a custom iso, create a directory in DATA partition named centos and put the original iso file in it
in ks.cfg :
harddrive --partition=sdb2 --dir=/centos
and in syslinux.cfg :
append ks=hd:sdb2:/ks.cfg method=hd:sdb2:/centos initrd=initrd.img
hope that helps
Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does not look simple.
system-config-netboot should be able to take care of almost everything for you .. although you will need to add a statement like the following in the subnet statement for your dhcp server:
allow booting; allow bootp; class "pxeclients" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient"; next-server <ip address of tftp server that you ran system-config-netboot on>; filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0"; }
In case you have issues on the client side with pxe booting .. check out some gPXE (formerly Etherboot) howtos at http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/howtos which allow you to boot over http.
Hope this helps, Barry
----- Original Message ----
From: Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Sun, February 28, 2010 1:51:18 PM Subject: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed
Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does not look simple.
I'm just shooting htis out ther eon the odd chance someone gets it soon nad knows of a really easy howto for this
"yum install cobbler" and use cobbler to build a netinstall server in 10 minutes :)
These are very handy:
http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/RedHat/kickstart/Cobbler http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/08/10/cobbler-how-to-set-up-a-network-boot-s...
And the oficial documentation
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
Hope this helps
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