Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread isdtor
> Also, in case you're ever interested, I've written a script that > generates suitable IPv4-based filenames for pre-default usage: > >https://github.com/heinlein/pxehex gethostip ... I simply rebuilt the relevant C5 rpms for C6, system-config-netboot and system-config-netboot-cmd, IIRC.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025B > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A802 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A80 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8 > > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 04/11/2017 01:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Biggs wrote: We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. What's happening is that it tries in this order

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread m . roth
Pete Biggs wrote: > >>We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild >> machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. >> What's happening is that it tries in this order >> .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
>We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild > machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. > What's happening is that it tries in this order > .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi, folks, We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. What's happening is that it tries in this order

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. What's happening is that it tries in this order .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. I haven't succeeded in installing CentOS-6 on my HP MicroServer by PXEboot yet, despite several tries. It hangs during waiting for hardware to initialize. Is there any way of finding out which particular piece of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation

[CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future. Unfortunately I didn't keep a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread Jure Pečar
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:49:48 +0200 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. Use cobbler, it does all the magic for you and things just work. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org http://f5j.eu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. Yep. Several times, in fact. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Timothy Murphy wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jure Pečar wrote: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. Use cobbler, it does all the magic for you and things just work. I've tried cobbler, in fact used it successfully. In my view, it might make sense if one has dozens of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Paul Heinlein wrote: I really just followed my procedure for netbooting CentOS 5, but changed the directory paths. 0. Set up local http mirror of CentOS 6 1. Set up tftp server; make CentOS 6 pxe kernel and initrd.img available 2. Use PXE menu to point to right kernel,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Timothy Murphy wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread m . roth
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Should I assume that these .iso's are unreliable, and d/l newer ones? No, normal behavior. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread m . roth
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Should I assume that these .iso's are unreliable, and d/l newer ones? No, normal behavior. Ok, now you have me confused: should there not be such image files? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Ok, now you have me confused: should there not be such image files? Look at the file names, it should be intuitive. As per the docs, if they exist, updates.img will apply updates:) etc... http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=305 Looks like it's been removed from the 6x docs, but I haven't the time to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot: solved

2011-07-12 Thread m . roth
Problem solved. Turns out that the repo that we had did not have comps.xml, and createrepo wasn't run. Works now. Thanks for the suggestions, though, folks. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree. A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Scot P. Floess
Not sure this is related... I just Cobbler-ified and Puppet-ized for CentOS 6... One thing I had in Cobbler was that I pointed to addons - which doesn't look like it exists in 6. I looked in 5.6 and noted nothing there...so I dropped addons as a repo in 6. All my VMs are installing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Phil Gardner
FWIW, I have this problem with 5.6. Are you installing from a local repo? If you are, try rsyncing the repo again. See if it changes the repodata files at all. I have yet to find why my repodata files are changing for the main repo (I didn't build our original repo servers, there are a bunch

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree. A

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Are you using a local repository? Perhaps the source from which you downloaded/rsynced it was in an unstable state. Yep. My manager d/l it; I found after I posted that he hadn't done a makerepo. Did that, no joy. Then the other admin here tells me I needed to do it