On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram and no cdrom) by PXE.
You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I've forgotten the exact requirement.
As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or disk layout. Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is to use a kickstart file.
So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation, use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I know that's unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is supposed to be a server O/S.)
Now I upgraded ram to 1 GB.
Now I see that client try to get ... /centos6/images/product.img + /centos6/images/updates.img but these files are missing in /images/ of 'CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso'
[divx] Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing from list! ... ... Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
I tried to append 'vga=771' to this line:
append initrd=centos64/initrd.img repo=http://a.y.z.a.5/centos6 devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=352000 vga=771
but nothing!
With vga=773 nothing!
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Robbins Sent: martedì 15 ottobre 2013 14:44 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network installation
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram and no cdrom) by PXE.
You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I've forgotten the exact requirement.
As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or disk layout. Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is to use a kickstart file.
So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation, use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I know that's unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is supposed to be a server O/S.)
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram
and no
cdrom) by PXE.
You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I've forgotten the exact requirement.
I believe the minimum for graphical is around 640 MB, but don't hold me to that number. I've not been able to quickly find the exact value (and it's likely in a RHEL6 release announcement).
While I was looking for a thread or URL that had the minimum memory info I found [0].
[0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-July/115367.html
As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or disk layout. Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is to use a kickstart file.
So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation, use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I know that's unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is supposed to be a server O/S.)
-- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
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I upgraded ram to 1 GB but now I obtained this message:
Xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
No other messages...
It's resolution problem ?!
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of SilverTip257 Sent: martedì 15 ottobre 2013 18:12 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network installation
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram
and no
cdrom) by PXE.
You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I've forgotten the exact requirement.
I believe the minimum for graphical is around 640 MB, but don't hold me to that number. I've not been able to quickly find the exact value (and it's likely in a RHEL6 release announcement).
While I was looking for a thread or URL that had the minimum memory info I found [0].
[0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-July/115367.html
As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or disk layout. Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is to use a kickstart file.
So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation, use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I know that's unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is supposed to be a server O/S.)
-- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
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