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How can I serve a Kickstart file over the network without a DHCP server?
I want to install CentOS 5.5 on two systems. I have a kickstart file.
I would like to install CentOS on a system using this kickstart file. I'm reading the instructions provided by fedoraproject.org ...
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Installing basic OS on a server without console
I'm having a server with some obsolete linux installed. I want to wipe everything out, have a basic Ubuntu installed, and get the IP of the server, and a default username and password.
From there ...
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Kickstart: one network card with DHCP, one with static IP?
I am using Kickstart to automate a CentOS install. I wanted one of the interfaces to have static IP so I wrote -
network --onboot yes --bootproto static \
-ip="intended IP" -netmask="intended ...
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How can I background a shell script during a Kickstart?
I have a Red Hat Kickstart process which reports its progress at key points via a POST request to a status server.
This is fine during %pre and %post, but when the actual build is taking place ...
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IPMI does not start up during kickstart-installation
I am in the process of further automating our system-installation on new servers. Main problem here is that the network-devices do not appear in the order we expect them (i.e. first onboard network ...
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Changing firewall settings after installation of CentOS via kickstart
I was trying to install CentOS 6.3 via Windows Deployment Server. And to automate the installation process I used kickstart file in which i provided various details required during installation.Then i ...
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Logging %pre during kickstart - logfile doesn't exist after boot
I am kickstarting several EL6 systems and I want to log the actions taken in my %pre section.
I know that I can log the %post section per the hints provided by centos.org: Tips and tricks for ...
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Installation of RHEL and softwares on multiple machines
In our organization, we have 15 new systems of same hardware.
I need to setup all the machines with RHEL 6.0 in it, multiple software's, and lot of basic configuration. I don't have any problem in ...
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ksappend does not work in RHEL/CO 6 any more? [migrated]
I am currently in the progress of migrating our kickstart-files from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6.
In CentOS 5 there was a nice anaconda/kickstart-statement that allowed the inclusion of other ...
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How to add NFS options flag to anaconda?
These options work for Kickstart to load the install tree from NFS:
The Fedora Kickstart documentation states
nfs --server=nfsserver.example.com --dir=/tmp/install-tree ...
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Linux Kickstart stops with dialog about “CD Found”
I'm installing Red Hat in a virtual machine, I'm using a kickstart file from an url, but few moments later the system starts to load, it shows a dialog about "CD Found - To begin testing the CD ...
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Copy files from source machine to LiveCD
I'm working on distributing a version of Fedora to our internal development team using Live CD. There are certain files I would like to copy to the live cd that are not:
part of an RPM or
going to ...
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CentOS 5.5 Install Customization
I'm having a frustrating time with customizing my initial CentOS 5.5 installation. I want to have a specific set of the packages installed (e.g. I want Java and httpd but not OpenOffice or NewsServer) ...
