At Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:34:15 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > I just tried a CentOS 7 install to a laptop over PXE and it failed in jus=
> t the
> > same way as for the VM.
> >
> > So, is it not possible to install CentOS 7 via PXE? Or is there something
> > missing? I just copied the images under os/x86_64/images/ to the tftpd
> > directory (/var/lib/tftpboot/) and included in
> > /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default this section:
> >
> > label centos75-64
> > MENU LABEL CentOS 7.5 x86_64
> > kernel centos75x86_64vmlinuz
> > append initrd=3Dcentos75x86_64initrd.img
> >
> >
> > Do I need anything more?
> >
> > Things seem to die/fail at some point after initializing the graphics fra=
> me
> > buffer. Is there a way to do a non-graphical install? I have a keyboard=
> and
> > really know how to use it and don't need some silly ("friendly"?) GUI to
> > install Linux (I don't need hand-holding).
>
> Yes, you can ask for a text installer by including "inst.text" (no =
>
> quotes) on the APPEND line of pxe configuration file.
>
> That said, the text installer in EL7 is considerably less functional =
>
> than the graphical installer.
I am not sure if I really agree with that... I ended up using a thumb drive,
but needed to resort to using the shell to get the disk set up the way I
wanted. *I* don't like GUI installers, since they generally impose limits on
how to install the system.
>
> My suggestion, fwiw, is to write up a kickstart file and use that =
>
> instead; it's easiest if you have a local web server that handles =
>
> unauthenticated plain-text http. Your entry would would like this:
>
> label centos75-64
> MENU LABEL CentOS 7.5 x86_64
> kernel centos75x86_64vmlinuz
> append initrd=3Dcentos75x86_64initrd.img inst.ks=3Dhttp://192.168.110.14=
> 4/ks/el7.ks inst.text
>
> But you can try a the text installer and see where that gets you...
>
When I install the VM later today, I'll try that, but might end up resorting
to using the disk image instead.
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