On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >>> Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. >>> If so, would you say how you did it, please. >>> I tried (on an HP MicroServer), >>> but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. >>> But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future. > >> Sure. I've done *all* my 6.0 installs - I've got, um, maybe a dozen of >> them - by PXEboot. We've got a ks.cgi perl script that generates the ks >> file, but there's no problem. Do you have a ks file? What problems are you >> having? > > I didn't use kickstart, > because I want to use the partitioning I've already set up, > and I was frightened ks might delete my partitions. > > I only wanted a very basic system set up on my partitions, > and ks seemed designed for more complicated setups. If you don't specify the partitioning in the kickstart then that part of the process becomes manual. I do that for server installs, while desktop installs are fully automated. -Ross