[CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

Fri Sep 23 20:45:51 UTC 2011
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

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.

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