2010/2/18 Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com>: > Hi, > I want to setup a central installation server, but haven't done this before, > so I want to find out what would be best practices for this? > The server I have already runs as a central repo, which is updated from one > or our local centos mirrors, and the other CentOS servers (both i386 & x64), > as well as CentOS VPS's get their updates from this server. > But, now I want to allow a client to perform a quick network installation, > using either a netbood CD, or preferably with the server's network bootrom. > I understand this can be done with bootp, or am I on the wrong track? > the server is a general file server and also acts as our in-office internet > gateway, and has Webmin installed for convenience sake. I don't know if this > is of any use? > Generally we would be (re)installing CentOS servers & desktops, but I guess > it could be useful for other distro's like Fedora Core / Debian / FreeBSD? / > etc. What would be a good option to go for, or could someone point me to a > good documentation? Doing a google search I found a lot of instructions on > how to perform a network installation on the client PC's, but not how to > configure the server. Maybe I used the wrong key words? See the kickstart at : http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-howuse.html -- Eero