Dave 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > How about unattended via http? Given that you probably have a cache of the updates (given that you have 'several machines'), you already have apache running somewhere with a cron to rsync the updates from the nearest mirror? Thats what i do; centos5 dvd mounted on /var/www/html/cd/0 Boot from cd, linux ks=http://10.1.1.8/unattend.cfg Not sure if you can put the update (yum -y update) at the bottom of the kickstart cfg as the box doesnt have working DNS lookups at that point (AFAIK) I usually log on as root, replace the /etc/yum.repo.d/CentOS-Base.repo with my own and then # yum -y update # reboot That way you dont need NFS (unless for some other business reason) MrKiwi