Dave wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have a guide for setting up an nfs server for unattended
deployment of centos5? Basically what i want to do is boot a system from
CD media, pass a boot parameter nfs, and ks= options then walk away, the
box goes out to the nfs server, finds the kickstart file, reads, and
does it. I've got several machines and i'd rather not do manual installs.
Thanks.
Dave.
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How about unattended via http? Given that you probably have
a cache of the updates (given that you have 'several
machines'), you already have apache running somewhere with a
cron to rsync the updates from the nearest mirror?
Thats what i do;
centos5 dvd mounted on /var/www/html/cd/0
Boot from cd, linux ks=http://10.1.1.8/unattend.cfg
Not sure if you can put the update (yum -y update) at the
bottom of the kickstart cfg as the box doesnt have working
DNS lookups at that point (AFAIK)
I usually log on as root, replace the
/etc/yum.repo.d/CentOS-Base.repo with my own and then
# yum -y update
# reboot
That way you dont need NFS (unless for some other business
reason)
MrKiwi
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