Other random checklist items for creating CentOS kickstart server
2006-06-15 19:47:02
In an earlier note, I documented how to create a kickstart server to do automated network installs for FC4.
I recently repeated the process for CentOS, and found a few things that I had forgotten about. This is a brief recap.
- You need to make sure you install a DHCP server, a TFTP server and Apache:
yum install tftp-server
yum install dhcp
2. Edit the dhcpd.conf as in the other article.
3. Edit /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and set "disable" to "no"
4. Use this rsync script:
#! /bin/sh mirror=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos localdir=/var/www/html/centos-mirror rsync -azvH --exclude-from=/l/etc/centos-rsync-exclude.txt $mirror $localdir createrepo -q $localdir/4/updates repoview -f -q $localdir/4/updates createrepo -q $localdir/4/os repoview -f -q $localdir/4/os createrepo -q $localdir/4/extras repoview -f -q $localdir/4/extras
This assumes you have repoview utility to make yum repositories web browse-able.