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I use VMware work station 10 & centos 6.4
I want to install centos on new virtual machine with raw hard disk
I stopped iptables & selinux

I set up local yum repository using file:///softwares, but i coludn't use it by http or ftp

I installed tftp & tftp-server & syslinux
I started httpd & xinetd services

/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
in subnet options, I added
next-server IP of DHCP server (local server I use "centos")
filename ”pxelinux.0”;

/etc/xinetd.d/tftp
server_args = -svv /var/lib/tftpboot
disable = no

I copied pxelinux.0 & menu.c32 & initrd.img & vmlinuz to /var/lob/tfpboot/

/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
PROMPT 0
DEFAULT menu.c32
TIMEOUT ....
ONTIMEOUT localdisk
MENU TITLE .....
LABEL .....
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img ks=http://IP of DHCP server/kickstart file name.cfg
(I created in /var/www/html)


/var/www/html/kickstart file name.cfg
install
url --url=”http://IP of DHCP server/centosdvd/”

bootloader --location=mbr

zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel

part / --asprimary --fstype=”ext4” --size=.....
part swap --asprimary --fstype=”swap” --size=.....

reboot

graphical
firstboot --disable
keyboard us
lang en_US
logging --level=info
timezone Egypt

firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled

network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=yes --noipv6

#(grub-crypt --sha-512
#enter new root password twice)
rootpw --iscrypted …..

authconfig --enableshadow
--passalgo=sha512
--enableldap
--enableldapauth
--ldapserver=ldap://IP of this ldap server
--ldapbasedn=”dc=.....,dc=.....” #(I use openldap)

repo –name=”.....” --baseurl=http://IP of DHCP server/centosdvd/

%packages
…...
%end
I changed permissions of /var/lib/tftpboot/ directory & /var/www/html/kickstart file
to 775


in the new virtual machine, when I boot it
it it shows error message that it's unable to download kickstart file

Thanks for sharing. Did you have a question or anything?

I use VMware Workstation 10 & centos 6.4 system
I try to use PXE + TFTP to install centos on new virtual machine with raw hard disk
I stopped firewall (iptables) & selinux

I installed tftp & tftp-server & syslinux
I started httpd & xinetd services

in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
in subnet options, I added 2 lines:
next-server 192.168.2.1 # IP of DHCP server (centos)
filename "pxelinux.0"

/etc/xinetd.d/tftp contains the following lines
server_args = -svv /var/lib/tftpboot
disable = no

I changed permissions of /var/lib/tftpboot to 775

I copied pxelinux.0 & menu.c32 & initrd.img & vmlinux from centos dvd to /var/lib/tftpboot

/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
------------------------------------------------
PROMPT 0
DEFAULT menu.c32
TIMEOUT 300
ONTIMEOUT localdisk
MENU TITLE .....
LABEL .....
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img
ks=http://192.168.2.1/kickstart1.cfg
(I created kickstart1.cfg file in /var/www/html)


/var/www/html/kickstart1.cfg
--------------------------------------
install
url --url=”http://192.168.2.1/centosdvd/”
(this folder contains installation files and I created local yum repository in it using yum and I tested it with file:///softwares, but it didn't work with http or ftp)

bootloader --location=mbr

zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel

part / --asprimary --fstype=”ext4” --size=5120
part swap --asprimary --fstype=”swap” --size=1024

reboot

graphical
firstboot --disable
keyboard us
lang en_US
logging --level=info
timezone Egypt

firewall --disabled
selinuxspace--disabled

network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=yes --noipv6

in another terminal
grub-crypt --sha-512
enter new root password twice
in current terminal
rootpw --iscrypted .....

authconfig --enableshadow
--passalgo=sha512
--enableldap
--enableldapauth
--ldapserver=ldap://192.168.2.1
--ldapbasedn=”dc=.....,dc=.....”

repo --name=”server netbios name” --baseurl=http://192.168.2.1/centosdvd/



%packages
..........
%endEnter

I changed permissions of kickstart file to 775



in the new virtual machine, when I boot it
it it shows error message that it's unable to download kickstart file

I have vmware workstation 10 and I heard that vmware has default network adapter type that has problems
if this is right, how can I change it

Post the actual error message. Cut and paste or screenshot, don't retype.

I attached a pic for error message

/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file has owner "root" with permissions 777
and both kickstart1 file and centosdvd directory are in /var/www/html with owner "apache" and permissions 777

there is no relative errors in http logs to pxe or tftp
also local yum repository failed using http
I think there is a problem in http network sharing, but I can't realize it