[CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network installation

Tue Oct 15 14:19:37 UTC 2013
Riccardo Castellani <r.castellani at usl6.toscana.it>

Now I upgraded ram to 1 GB.

Now I see that client try to get ... /centos6/images/product.img +
/centos6/images/updates.img
but these files are missing in /images/ of 'CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso'

[divx] Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
removing from list!
...
...
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

I tried to append 'vga=771' to this line:

append initrd=centos64/initrd.img repo=http://a.y.z.a.5/centos6
devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=352000 vga=771

but nothing!

With vga=773 nothing!



-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Scott Robbins
Sent: martedì 15 ottobre 2013 14:44
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] no group package selection via PXE network
installation

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:26:35PM +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
> I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram 
> and no
> cdrom) by PXE.

You need more than 512 MB of RAM to do a graphic installation, I've
forgotten the exact requirement.  

As for text install, RedHat has crippled it--you cannot choose packages or
disk layout.   Apparently Anaconda developers decided to focus upon the
graphic install, and so, the only way to customize a text based install is
to use a kickstart file.  

So, your options are to increase the RAM so you can get a GUI installation,
use a kickstart file, or use an operating system where the developers still
think like system administrators rather than smart phone users. (Yeah, I
know that's unfair and FUD, but it is aggravating for something that is
supposed to be a server O/S.)


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