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aapje

06-21-2006 01:25 PM

PXE unattended installs

Hi,

currently PXE is working now on my server, I can install centos or another OS manually.

But what I'am trying to do is install is automatic with a unattended install. I know how to build unattended installs for windows but not for *nix...

Is there an page what shows me how to do it?

And if it is possible, how can I make the PXE server to boot from a directory with the install files in it and not in a image file?

permalac

11-03-2009 05:38 AM

I know it's an old post, but I just ended here and if someone else have it's in the same situation I hope this post will help.

debian ubuntu
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apb.html

rh, centos, fedora
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...art-HOWTO.html

Hope it helps.

Thanks

mail4vijay

11-03-2009 06:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by permalac (Post 3742439)

Really good Link , thanks for sharing. :)

Predatorian

11-14-2009 10:49 AM

howdy, i found this post, and the link helped a lot, thanks for that, but i still get this error

Code:

[!] Configuring initrd-kickseed

Failed to download Kickstart file

The Kickstart file at http://192.168.1.2/ks.cfg could not be downloaded. The error was:



wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

permalac

11-15-2009 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Predatorian (Post 3756989)

howdy, i found this post, and the link helped a lot, thanks for that, but i still get this error

Code:

[!] Configuring initrd-kickseed

Failed to download Kickstart file

The Kickstart file at http://192.168.1.2/ks.cfg could not be downloaded. The error was:



wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Hello Predatorian,

the box you would like to install should be able to reach that ks.cfg, ask yourself this questions:

does my machine have ip address?
the ip address is in the same net? (or you also need a gateway)
does my ks.cfg really get served , apache can read it so can give it away.

And if all this questions are ok, please post here your config as more detailed possible.

tahnks

Predatorian

11-17-2009 03:50 AM

i found out what was going on, i didnt have the ks.cfg file in the right directory, it needed to be in /var/www/, so then apache could access it when ubuntu accessed it.

DaveQB

11-17-2009 07:49 AM

And here for Debian too:

http://wiki.debian.org/FAI

jefro

11-17-2009 04:00 PM

http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Ki...Kickstart.html

Mrfai

10-04-2010 07:10 AM

I suggest to have a look at FAI. It can install Debian, Ubuntu and also RPM based distributions. It's more flexible than kickstart, since it includes a modular class system, so you can handle your configuration files easily. It also available since over ten years, and it actively developed.

The FAI home page is now
http://fai-project.org

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