On Fri, October 17, 2014 3:55 pm, Dan Hyatt wrote: > Hi, > > I am still trying to get kick-start centos in my vmware5 because pxe > cannot find the pxe server. I do not control the dhcp or pxe server. > I have both my kickstart file and my iso image for centos6.5 on my > vmware datastore, but am trying to run my kickstart file from VMware > guest. > > Can I tell the command line to run from the datastore in VMWare? Or must > I convert my kickstart file to a floppy image to run from VMware console? I hope I didn't miss something (as I have no idea what "datastore in VMWare" means). When I install system on real machine or on virtual box virtual machine, I use kickstart that I place on some webserver, then if I don't have access to dhcp configuration, then I boot the box off any installation media, and before it load kernel (when it gives you choice run system off CD or install system) I press "escape". At this moment you have access to which kernel and with which options you want to boot. So I just point it to my kickstart file as follows: linux ks=http://my.server.com/path/to/kickstart.cfg (replace the URL with URL of your kickstart file). Also, in kicstart I just give the URL of our public mirror I support for our University. E.g. as URL of installation media for 64 CentOS 7 I have the following line in kickstart file: url --url=http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64 I hope, this helps. Valeri > > I have the centos image on the DVD mounted from my datastore. Now I > need to convert the kickstart file to a floppy image to mount on the > server from my datastore > > > This is what google and VMWare keeps telling me but it does not make > sense unless I am copying off a floppy.... > What I am trying to do is turn the kickstart file into a floppy image so > I can kickstart off the floppy in vmware. > > Create a disk image from the physical drive: > cat /dev/fd0 > imagefile.img > > Copy image to the physical drive: > cat imagefile.img > /dev/fd0 > > Help figuring out that silly little piece that is keeping me from > building a VM guest from my kickstart file is much appreciated. > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++