I found the info on the Centos wiki helpful when I had these questions:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup
Note the last line links to the oxen menu guide. I skipped the trouble of dhcp option entries.
On Aug 4, 2011 6:43 PM, "Paul Heinlein" <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>> The guides for a LAN install I've found all want to do an automated
>> kickstart install. Are there any guides that explain how to use eg.
>> CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso for an interactive PXE installation?
>>
>> I think I understand the DHCP config and I've got tftpd installed on
>> my CentOS 5 server and see the empty /tftpboot directory. I'm
>> guessing I need to unpack some of the files in the iso image into
>> /tftpboot in some special layout and add some files from
>> /usr/lib/syslinux. What's not clear is what files in the image go
>> where in the tftpboot system, and what the menu stanza should look
>> like in the menu file.
>
> LABEL centos-6-text.x86_64
> MENU LABEL CentOS 6 x86_64 text installer
> KERNEL images/centos/6/x86_64/vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=images/centos/6/x86_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=100000 text
>
> The images/ directory lives in /tftpboot on our tftp server.
>
> The vmlinuz and initrd.img both come from the images/pxeboot directory
> in the install tree, e.g.,
>
> http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/
>
> Of course, you might not want a text installation, given that it's
> braindead compared to its graphical counterpart...
>
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> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>> The guides for a LAN install I've found all want to do an automated
>> kickstart install. Are there any guides that explain how to use eg.
>> CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso for an interactive PXE installation?
>>
>> I think I understand the DHCP config and I've got tftpd installed on
>> my CentOS 5 server and see the empty /tftpboot directory. I'm
>> guessing I need to unpack some of the files in the iso image into
>> /tftpboot in some special layout and add some files from
>> /usr/lib/syslinux. What's not clear is what files in the image go
>> where in the tftpboot system, and what the menu stanza should look
>> like in the menu file.
>
> LABEL centos-6-text.x86_64
> MENU LABEL CentOS 6 x86_64 text installer
> KERNEL images/centos/6/x86_64/vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=images/centos/6/x86_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=100000 text
>
> The images/ directory lives in /tftpboot on our tftp server.
>
> The vmlinuz and initrd.img both come from the images/pxeboot directory
> in the install tree, e.g.,
>
> http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/
>
> Of course, you might not want a text installation, given that it's
> braindead compared to its graphical counterpart...
>
> --
> Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
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