create the menu and submenu in isolinux.cfgWe do have a lot sites,ach sites using different Linux OS customization. So i need to create menu and submenu to select the appropriate OS image for the respective sites to do the installation through kickstart
View 1 RepliesI'm using 9.10 Karmic. Is it possible to add a Main Menu to my right click menu?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've got a system in place to PXE boot new machines and automatically configuring them via anaconda. It works great.
However, I have a few older machines with no PXE capability that I would like to use a Flash drive or CD-ROM to boot and run the same anaconda config.
I'm running into an issue finding useful documentation on how to create this CD. I've tried mkisofs but it doesn't really give any details on the boot catalog or whatever is needed to make a CD bootable.
How can I customize the applications menu. I would like to have a menu option 'programming' and I would like to add emacs, DDD, eclipse to that menu option. So it would be something like this:
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I found this documentation on how to edit the menu source file:but I have no environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME or $KDEDIR. I am running Ubuntu 9.04. Also, after I have edited the menu file, do I have to restart to see that it worked?Also, if there is an easier way to customize, I would like to know that as well.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI tried the ubuntu 11.04, the desktop is different from the gnome,I want to customize the top menu, for example, adding a button to close it or auto hide it? In gnome I just need to right-click to get the preferences
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to write a kickstart file for Fedora Directory Server.I am stuck at some menu options. here is what I have written so far:
Code:
install
cdrom
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I've been running 10.04 since September on my new MSi i3 notebook and about two weeks ago I noticed that when I login after system boot, propagation of icons on my desktop and the content of my Panel have become slower and slower.If I logout and login again the propagations are not slow.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to customize my bootprocess on Karmic Koala.on <= jaunty i have been using the bootupmanager but on karmic it does not list all the processes and their state properly. so i think the internal changes within the karmic bootprocess have made bum inoperable. which is not that bad since karmic boots much faster but still i would like to make some changes to karmics boot.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter installing sendmail, I sent a mail for testing the mail I receive is from sender www-data and default email is www-data@dryaf-desktop. How do I change this email to something else ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was trying to mount nfs share in same server
The command
But the same tried in different manner as below
The /var/log/messages :
What exactly the problem is?
Does the same would be causing the failure in mouting nfs share /var/ftp/pub on kickstart?
I have an older Pentium 3 laptop, a toshiba portege 7140CT. It's one of those laptops designed to be light and easy on battery, so that means no CD drive and no floppy. You have to have the docking station to use optical media.... and I don't have it. I was given this machine for free some years back. I have a USB external DVD-RW drive, and what I want to do is configure GRUB to kickstart a CD/DVD boot from it if possible. obviously, being an old P3 laptop the BIOS has no concept of USB boot. is there a way to pull this off?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to install CentOS via kickstart server without first booting the client from a bootable cd media? Like on Sun platform, on OBP level, client can boot from a kickstart-like (jumpstart) server and proceed installation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to create a linux boot cd with a kickstart file. I have a working kickstart file and a working boot image (tested by booting using the network for the kickstart file), but I can't seem to put them both on the DVD.
Here are the steps I took
1. mount the *.iso file to /mnt/isosetups
2. Recursively copy all the files from /mnt/isosetups to /mnt/bootcd
3. removing /mnt/bootcd/isolinux/boot.cat
4. running the mkisofx command (used -c to recreate boot.cat)
5. put the new image on a windows box and burned to a dvd using roxio
The result was that I could enter the red hat boot menu but the server couldn't find the boot image on the cd. I could go into more detail about what commands I entered, my environment, what I tested, etc.
Does anyone know of a way to tell the CentOS installer -not- to use LVM in a kickstart? We've been using a system that lets us define which particular drives to use during the installation as part of our deployment system. This does not work now that LVM is the 'default' in CentOS. I've looked over the options and I see how to FORCE particular LVM configurations, but I see no way to just turn it off.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am in the process of creating for the very first time Kickstart bootable CD.Anyone have any quick tips or level of details to create this process? I am new to Linux and doing this for the very 1st time, so please give me as much info as possible
View 7 Replies View RelatedI need to do a project on installing RHEL6 via kick start file in a single DVD. I have made the kick start file and it's ready with the basic parameters like keyboard type, language, firewall and SElinux disabled. How can i boot it in the server. Also please help me in the below steps,
I need to use LVM option for File systems except swap and /boot, how can i mention it in the file?If there is a need to use NIS or LDAP where can i mention it in the file?
I need to create a Redhat or CentOS server but I am not really sure where to begin. I'm not sure what network booting and PXE booting is. Are they both the same thing, or are they different? I want to setup one server and two client machines to connect to my server. I would like to be able to load a kickstart CD on my server and have the two client machines boot off that servers kickstart. My concern is, will they boot off the network or do they have to be configured to use PXE booting?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI currently have a kickstart server working with RHEL 5.5. I wanted to add a RHEL 6 installation. So, I added a RHEL6 directory to my NFS share and put the contents of the dvd in it. I also added a RHEL6 directory to my tftp directory and put the initrd.img and vmlinuz from RHEL6 in it. I put in the ks.cfg:nfs --server 10.0.1.1 --dir /kick (where /kick is the nfs exported directory). In my pxelinux.cfg directory, I created a file corresponding to the ip address and put in:
Code:
default RHEL6
abel RHEL6
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I am trying to kickstart and want in post install to copy some files from a shared directory, to enable passwd less ssh and having
same users across the clusters. But the cp does not work, nor does .ssh directory is getting created I have pasted my post install script below.
mkdir /mnt/sysimage/mnt/temp
mount -t nfs 10.1.1.1:/home /mnt/sysimage/mnt/temp
cp -f /mnt/sysimage/mnt/temp/passwd /etc/passwd
cp -f /mnt/sysimage/mnt/temp/group /etc/group
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How to configure Samaba Server on CentOS 5.5 and how to synchronize with my Windows Server-2003.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat I am trying to to is set up a cluster as follows:
- There are four nodes
- Nodes three and four have large amounts of storage that will be used for storing user data.
- Nodes one and two will be running a couple of network services.
I'd like have nodes one and two to have a clustered filesystem just between them to store data for the services run only by them.is it possible to share one filesystem between two nodes and another filesystem between two other nodes? The cluster seems to try to make the storage changes across all nodes. They will not be able to spend the extra money to get the same storage in all four nodes. Here is what I have done. I am using CentOS 5.5. After installing CentOS, I did this:
On all nodes:
Code:
[root@node1 ~]# yum groupinstall "Clustering"
[root@node1 ~]# yum groupinstall "Cluster Storage"
[root@node1 ~]# chkconfig ricci on
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...which I think makes sense because the cluster was supposed to create the PV and the volume group, but did not. I don't even think it tries. The first time it tries to do anything to another node is when I create a logical volume.
I started to use mailboxes instead of maildirs on my server. My server is with imapd on slackware.I found out that by Thunderbird I just cannot create sub-folders in my imap directory. My users used to manage their mails into hierarchically organized subfolders.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo here it is, I have a fileserver setup on Ubuntu Server 9.10 AMD64. In this system is 4 1.5TB SATAII drives. They are configured in RAID5 using MD. Now everything is working beautify, except when you need to create a directory. When you do, the system hangs for about 30 seconds. The I/O wait in top jumps up as well. Then the directory is created and everything works once again.
The odd part is it is only Directory creation that does this. I can copy, move, download and stream files off the server perfectly. I am baffeled as to what is causing it. It might be related to the fact that I expanded the array from 3 to 4 drives, it was after that, that I first noticed the problem.
I'm trying to do a red hat Advanced server 4 update 7 install using a kick start file on the network. The server with the kickstart file and dvd contents is on the same subnet as the server receiving the install. We have done it before in the past just fine using:linux nofb text ks=http://serverip/path at the boot/install screen. After that the ip address info is entered manually and the kickstart does its thing. When doing this with update 7, the install acts like a regular install. When i check the http access logs on the other server, it shows no access from the server receiving the install.I have tried adding an ip address to the install command. Such as:
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan i set tftp server on RHEL 5.5 for Fedora Kickstart?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am successfully able to kickstart FC12 onto my system, however once anaconda runs it changes the resolution of the console when running a text mode install. Are there any kickstart options that can control this behavior?
I tried to set resolution and nofb in the kickstart configuration. I am using the text option for text install. My problem is that my remote KVM doesn't support the console resolution.
I added the "@clustering" and "@kvm" keywords to my ks.cfg file but during installation, an error about not being able to find either of these packages popped up and it wasn't installed.
I do see the Cluster and VT directories in my redhat_es5.4 directory along with the Server directory. The rest of the files install just fine.
In doing some net and forum searching, I find a reference to a base.repo file that lists the directories but I'm not sure if it's related to creating a yum repository or if not, should it have been created in the redhat_es5.4 directory.
While I've built kickstarts for several years and am comfortable with the file, this is the first time I'm working with rpms outside the main Server path.
My Server is Ubuntu 9.10x64 running in a 64bit vmware on a Dell Optiplex 760. I have the Ubuntu amd64 mirror downloaded locally in /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/
I am not working with any other **buntu flavours.
tftp and dhcp are all working from what i can tell. My client can boot from the PXE, get an IP address, and takes me into the Kickstart loader.
For some reason, it is not reading my ks.cfg. I get the blue screen that says the following: "The installer failed to download a file from the mirror. This may be a problem with the network or with the mirror. You can choose to retry the download, select a different mirror or cancel and choose another installation method.
Downloading a file failed:"
Below I have pasted whatever relevant information I can find pertaining to my issue.
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+ /var/www Directory Listing +
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-26 11:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2010-04-21 13:08 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2010-04-26 11:38 boot-screens -> /var/lib/tftpboot
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Can we do kickstart installation of linux on Vmware Workstation.
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