This is relatively unique. Cannot load a barebones OS because VMWares
mouse does not map to the screen. So where the mouse pointer is pointing
and the buttons are not mapped correctly making impossible. Since it is
not a physical server, I don't have the USB. But VMWare will allow me to
"mount" a virtual floppy. So if I can create a floppy image of my
kickstart file, I can kickstart my virtual iso image.
A datastore is a filesystem on a virtual server exported to the virtual
guests.
Because this is a blade, there is no usb or DVD physically connected. I
can virtually mount a floppy and dvd from a floppy image and a dvd image.
As this is a production environment where we don't have any http servers
under my control, it gets interesting.
Normal blades are installed via PXE from the other groups pxe server,
the other group is not being helpful at this time.
On 10/17/2014 4:20 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
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
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