[CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot: Unable to download the kickstart file

Thu Jul 21 09:17:37 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, John Hodrien wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot: Unable to download the kickstart file
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Patrick Lists wrote:
>
>> I have used NFS (v3 & v4) and HTTP and for me HTTP was faster so I
>> continued to use HTTP.
>
> I'd switch to HTTP on the basis that HTTP seems to be the 
> more 'normal' way to install, and there are no obvious 
> downsides.

Yes. At least there are no version changes with the http 
protocol that would bust anything, and it still works over 
the network. Myself, I use my kickstart file from a USB 
flash drive, so that works on a machine without a Floppy DD 
:)

Regards,

Keith

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