Trying to use "minimal" ISOs The 64-bit CEL 7.0 and 6.6 look ok so far. but when I try to set up the CEL 6.6 i386, but I get the following - The initrd could not be found at the specified location: /var/distros/CentOS-6.6-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img It does have the initrd.img file in .../isolinux, but for some reason, not in .../images/pxeboot On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:36 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/17/2015 12:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> 2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Doug<doug.eckert at dowjones.com>: >> >> >We have a DHCP/PXE server in a build environment, which is separate from >>> >our Spacewalk v1.5 server. We direct builds to Satellite or Spacewalk >>> based >>> >as needed. It contains initrd & vmlinuz files for each version/arch we >>> >currently deploy for both RHEL & CEL. >>> > >>> >I'd like to keep the storage footprint to a minimum, if possible. >>> Keeping a >>> >big directory of ISOs to loop-mount for kickstart profile distributions >>> >seems excessive, especially when DVD#1 exceeds 4GB now. Is there any way >>> >around this requirement for kickstarting? >>> > >>> > >>> >> How about using centos/rhel minimal iso for kickstarting ? >> > > indeed, thats what I do, and point at an nfs or http repository of the > packages. the kickstart file contains all the configuration info for a > particular setup. > > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- *Doug Eckert* *Technical Architect* *Global Business Technology* *Dow Jones* | *A News Corporation Company* P.O. Box 300 | Princeton NJ 08543-0300 (W) 609.520.4993 (C) 732.666.3681 *Email: **doug.eckert at dowjones.com* <alias at dowjones.com>