Re: setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote:

> On 08/09/11 4:02 PM, Craig White wrote:
>> you have a complete kickstart script written for you already...
>>
>> /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
>
> speaking of kickstart...   I may need to setup a portable kickstart
> server for CentOS 6 , and I've never really messed with it...  how do
> you supply the ks.cfg file when you're PXE booting and have no CD or floppy?
>
> is there a good how-to on setting up kickstart servers for EL6 ?
>
> redhat can't be serious when they say...
>
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-netboot-pxe-config.html
>
>    30.2. PXE Boot Configuration
>
>    The next step is to copy the files necessary to start the
>    installation to the tftp server so they can be found when the client
>    requests them. The tftp server is usually the same server as the
>    network server exporting the installation tree.
>
>    (end of section)
>
>
> like, *WHAT* files??   does anyone PROOF READ this stuff ?!?  (yeah, I
> know, this is upstream's problem, not CentOS...)

You might want to look at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/

Regards,

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