[CentOS] unattended install via nfs

Tue May 29 20:58:11 UTC 2007
Jean Figarella <jfigarella at vecna.com>

joseph tacuyan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/29/07, *Dave* <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com <mailto:dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
>         Does anyone have a guide for setting up an nfs server for unattended
>     deployment of centos5? Basically what i want to do is boot a system
>     from CD
>     media, pass a boot parameter nfs, and ks= options then walk away,
>     the box
>     goes out to the nfs server, finds the kickstart file, reads, and
>     does it.
>     I've got several machines and i'd rather not do manual installs.
>     Thanks.
>     Dave.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
>  Generate a ks.cfg file either using from previous working machine or 
> just run system-config-kickstart, then have your installation image 
> exported on nfs server as well you're new ks.cfg file, from you're would 
> be kickstart client you can boot and issue:
> 
> ks=nfsserver:/export/ks.cfg
> 
> HTH,
> 
> joseph
> 
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Doesn't Centos 5 gives you the option of adding yum repos to the 
kickstart file? So if you add the updates repo then it installs an 
updated os from the get go? Therefor you wouldn't need the yum update -y
at the end?

Jean