At our NYC office, I have a PXE/Kickstart system setup. All I need to do is boot to PXE, and I can install CentOS with very little intervention. I have to choose Server vs Desktop (each choice points to a different http hosted kickstart cfg file.) and I have to setup my partitons how I want them.
Recently I was tasked to setup a new office in LA. I had taken a CentOS iso with me, but I wanted to use the standard config file (hosted over http) at the central office. Basically I wanted to use the local bits with a remote config file. I learned a couple fo things going through this exercise.
- It is not easy to serach for KickStart config file examples becasue KickStart is the name of the process and the name of the config file.
- When booting from an ISO, if you want use local bits with a remote KickStart config file, the command is
- linux ks=http://url.server.com/
- The kickstart file must have the directive: cdrom
- you can not have both “url” and “cdrom” in the same file. It will use the first one it finds (or last, I do not remember which)
- You can not combine both command line parameters and a kickstart file – the KickStart file overrides. For example I used:
- linux ks=http://url.server.com/ks.cfg method=cdrom and I did not have “cdrom” in the config file. The installer prompted me for media type.
The only way I could use local bits with a KickStart file, was to specify “cdrom” in the config file. Which means I had to have yet another option/config file= dekstop,server, server-cdrom.
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