Hello, I have recently setup a centos6 using kickstart network server. I have flowed tutorial found online. However, I have to define partition scheme at kickstart file. Is there any way to install centos from kickstart without defining partition scheme? I mean if you use normal installation from DVD, it will gave us whole HDD and let us do our custom partitioning. Is there any way to get similar system?

One more question, what technology can be use to install OS to a remote server which we do not have physical access?

Hi,
to get the default partitioning I use the following in my kickstart files:
You may only need the "autopart" line. For Scientific Linux 6 this results in LVM with separate / and boot and swap. I don't know the algorithm it uses to determine the relative sizes of the partitions. Note also that you can look at /boot/anaconda-ks.cfg on any system to see what was actually done, and reuse it on your own kickstart files.

I think you can do this with IPMI, but that depends on the hardware in question. See for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intell...ment_Interface

HTH,

Evo2.

thank you evo2, I actually wanted to to perform installation just like we do by DVD installation where we normally use below partitioning scheme

From my kickstart file, I can not allocate maximum disk available on my HDD, I always left with some space. My current ks.cfg partition table is as below:

MY HDD size is 512G

Hi,


hmm, I'm not sure how to tell it to make the last partition fill the remaining part of the disk. Perhaps something like
More info at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaco...t_or_partition and https://access.redhat.com/site/docum...2-options.html.

Evo2.

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Which tutorial did you use?

Thank you

followed this tutorial