I 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?
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'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.
I 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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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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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 Replies View RelatedCan we do kickstart installation of linux on Vmware Workstation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAny one help me to build Redhat Linux 5.3 Server using Kickstart Installation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using RHEL 5.4 and trying to use the system-config-kickstart to generate a ks.cfg file with all the settings already appeneded. After running the "system-config-kickstart --generate ks.cfg" command, the file gets created but it's missing the firewall configuration, partition information and so on.
How can these settings also be generated with the system-config-kickstart?
I recently set up a kickstart server using Centos 5. I copied all 7 of the centos 5 install cd's to the tree. I made the install cd, it boots fine. I'm using http, when I'm prompted, I put in the web site: 1.1.1.1 and the Centos directory of /network-install/RPM
I get the following error:
Unable to retrieve [URL]
I've been told the double slashes after the ip address is not a problem, and I've tested that through a browser, by browsing the same location. (not sure if
that's a valid test, but it did find the directory and display the files.)
I am looking for a way to partition 2 disks automatically with are both connected to 2 different scsi controllers.
I want one disk on one controller to be partitioned with boot and lvm and the other one with a different partition layout.
I there a way in kickstart to do this, like for instance specify the drive module?
I'm confronted with a problem and haven't been able to find a solution using Google and the likes. I have created a netinstall image based on CentOS 5.6 with kickstart which works great while pointing to the HTTP / NFS repository in isolinux.cfg like this:Code:label publisherkernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.imgks=http://192.168.0.198/kickstart/ks.cfg cdncontentpublisherThe problem however is that the location of the kickstart file and repository/ies might vary and I don't want to create a separate ISO for each and every location.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have a ready to deploy kickstart file for creating KVM images? I don't have access to a CentOS machine or a spare computer and would need to create images for a machine on the other side of the Atlantic.I would need something that would create an absolute minimal CentOS installation. I tried to search for something online, but couldn't find anything.
View 1 Replies View Relatedis possible to edited the default RHEL CD to have it automatically install RHEL based off of a kickstart file that I will store locally on the CD. My plan would be to put a cd in a server and have the OS automatically being installed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI learnt that there is a way where we can automate the installation of Red Hat using a kickstart script. However, everywhere they talk about doing that from bootable floppy image. I have a single DVD of Red Hat (RHEL5). Can anyone tell how can I kickstart the installation using the kickstart script, i.e., where do I place the ks.cfg file on the disk and what command should be given at the boot prompt? (Kickstart from DVD and not from any network.)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to load RHEL4 (I know, I know, but I can't get around that) on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 using a kickstart file. I start the install using 'linux acpi=off ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg' (I use acpi=off otherwise it hangs at some ACPI embedded controller message). It does not recognize my CD-ROM drive, though, and asks me to choose the driver or point to a driver disk. I've selected 'Advanced Host Controller Interface SATA (ahci)' and it is able to continue on. It forgets that it was supposed to run off of the kickstart, though, and goes into the default graphical install. My question is...how do I add a line into the kickstart to choose this driver?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a working Centos 5.4 (== Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4) kickstart installation working with pxe boot.I am now trying to do the same kickstart installation but from a SCSI harddrive on the hardware box itself.In other words, the system already has an older distribution on it, and it has a formatted LVM partition with free space. I expect to upload an initrd, vmlinux, ks.cfg at the top of this partition, edit the grub.conf with something like so:
grub.conf
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title TestOS
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I'm trying to create an iso to use for a kickstart installation.
I mounted the Rhel6 boot DVD, copied the files(recursively cp -r /mnt/dvd/ ~/myiso) to a directory ~/myiso
I then placed the ks.cfg on ~/myiso and ~/myiso/isolinux for good measure, as the documentation is not 100% clear on this.
I then try to make an iso out of ~/myiso but no luck in booting so far.
I've tried the following:
Code:
mkisofs -o ks.iso -b images/install.img -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table isolinux .
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I am trying to install jdk automatically using kickstart. I have added jdk-6u13-linux-i586.rpm to Server dir (where all rpms exist) and add jdk to %packages section. It always complain jdk is missing. I tried it also with another rpms which are not in the RedHat DVD and it always complatin the the package is missing.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have not used Fedora in a long while (since version 5 I think).I am moving back to it for my new home server but there is something that is driving me completely crazy. Can you no longer do HDD installs from a ISO?I whipped out my old kickstart files and worked off of them and all seams to be OK but every time it says it is unable to find the install source.Here are the first two lines of my KS file:
Code:
install
harddrive --partition=sdb1 --dir=/linux_install/fedora/iso
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I cannot kickstart my computers using the pxeboot The pxeboot is working The kernel is loaded, however, the network manager is not able to get the IP, however, 10 seconds before the PXE was able to get. I do not receive a request on my network
I have messages as
device state change 2->3 (reason 40)
...
device state change 3->4 (reason 0)
...
device state change 5->7 (reason 40)
Timeout
The strange this, if I inserte a stupid switch everything is working.
You can add a user with their password in one go, just use the -p option:
useradd -p '$1$S5P0QMGg$1RJ8yBPnDvyJ0SynNkESL1' mruser
The above password hash is for the word: password The easiest way to hash your password would be to grab it out of /etc/shadow
I am trying the same with the ks.cfg for RHEL5.4, but the users dont seem to get creted, after I login.
useradd -p <ENCRYPTE_PWD> username