On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote: > My chicken and egg. > > I was hoping to > 1. create a baseline image that I can clone > 2. get a centos image on a VM guest, have my own management servers > (including pxe boot) that I own and control. > > > Once I have one or two, I can expand my private cloud as large as I > want...and building new guest servers will take minutes. Please don't top-post. ;-) 1) yes, if you include the kickstart in an ISO, you'll have to modify ISOs for each release that comes out. 2) I'd suggest discounting the idea of a floppy image and go for a PXE server. 3) Your problems with a PXE server are probably for two reasons: a) you don't control the network, so the boot file is not set ; b) you don't have VMware's networking configured properly. 4) Simple solution (_within your control_): Make a separate bridge via VMware for a "kickstart network". Build one VM manually and set up DHCP/TFTP/DNS Forwarder/HTTP/ip_forward/NAT Masquerading. Put one NIC in your NATted VMware bridge (or another bridge that facilitates reaching the Internet (unless you run your own package mirror on that "manual VM"). Put the other NIC in that "kickstart network" bridge ... make HTTP (for pulling the config), DHCP, and TFTP listen on that interface and that interface only. Spin up your remaining VMs via PXE. This takes some work up front, but it will save you time in the long run. Changing a kickstart config or adding a new one is painless. > > > On 10/17/2014 5:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 10/17/2014 1:55 PM, Dan Hyatt wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> this is on ESXI? you /could/ create a virtual network thats not routed >> or bridged to your actual networks, then create your own PXE/DHCP server on >> this virtual network, and then connect your new VM to that private virtual >> net for installation, switching it over to the regular networks when its >> done installing.... I've done crazier things on ESXI :) >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //