[CentOS] kickstart install using url location

Mon Jul 20 22:35:55 UTC 2009
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks nate.
> So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3?
>
>
It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead.  There are a
couple approaches:

1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very
quick and painless.

2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it
allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the
repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to
install the latest version at once.

For the first case:
mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86

Your kickstart url would look like:

  url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/


In the second case, follow the instructions here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos
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