[CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

[Ross Walker]

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