I found the info on the Centos wiki helpful when I had these questions: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup
Note the last line links to the oxen menu guide. I skipped the trouble of dhcp option entries. On Aug 4, 2011 6:43 PM, "Paul Heinlein" <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> The guides for a LAN install I've found all want to do an automated >> kickstart install. Are there any guides that explain how to use eg. >> CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso for an interactive PXE installation? >> >> I think I understand the DHCP config and I've got tftpd installed on >> my CentOS 5 server and see the empty /tftpboot directory. I'm >> guessing I need to unpack some of the files in the iso image into >> /tftpboot in some special layout and add some files from >> /usr/lib/syslinux. What's not clear is what files in the image go >> where in the tftpboot system, and what the menu stanza should look >> like in the menu file. > > LABEL centos-6-text.x86_64 > MENU LABEL CentOS 6 x86_64 text installer > KERNEL images/centos/6/x86_64/vmlinuz > APPEND initrd=images/centos/6/x86_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=100000 text > > The images/ directory lives in /tftpboot on our tftp server. > > The vmlinuz and initrd.img both come from the images/pxeboot directory > in the install tree, e.g., > > http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/ > > Of course, you might not want a text installation, given that it's > braindead compared to its graphical counterpart... > > -- > Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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