In article <alpine.LRH.2.00.1003021050260.7375@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 at 10:10am, Tony Mountifield wrote
>
> > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP
> > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to
> > do is, from the currently-running system, to invoke an installation
> > kernel and initrd in just the same way that GRUB would, giving it a boot
> > command line that specifies a remote kickstart file, installation tree,
> > and other required info.
>
> This is simple. Grab the vmlinuz and initrd.img files from the pxeboot
> directory of the repo you want to install from. Put those in /boot on the
> server in question. From there, there are a couple of ways you can go.
> The easiest is to actually put the ks.cfg on the server itself. Then you
> can add a stanza like the following (you'll need to tailor all the hard
> drive references to your own setup, of course) to your grub.conf:
>
> title reinstall
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=hd:sda1:/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0
> initrd /boot/initrd.img
>
> Make that entry the default, reboot, and your kickstart will start.
> Obviously all of your network info needs to be specified in the ks.cfg
> file.
>
> If you want to grab the ks.cfg from a remote server, that can be done too,
> but you'll need to specify the network config options on the "kernel" line
> above. I don't have the exact syntax handy, but it's all documented.
> Install the "anaconda" package and look in
> /usr/share/doc/anaconda-$VERSION/command-line.txt and you can see all the
> options you can pass to the install kernel. On CentOS-5 installs I
> always use "noipv6", since it seems to make things go much faster.
>
> For a one-off like this, installing cobbler is a bit (read: a lot) of
> overkill.
Thanks - much appreciated!
Tony
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