[Herts] Meeting ?

Mon Feb 9 15:32:52 UTC 2009

Hi Mike

I am not sure what your network setup is, but would it be possible to
setup a NFS export and boot the headless machine off that ? Does the
headless machine in question support PXE BOOTING ?

Once I have the centos mirror fully synced on my LAN server I plan to do
some testing with PXE booting & TFTP and stuff.

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch-pxe.html 

http://halisway.blogspot.com/2006/05/installing-centos-linux-on-remote.h
tml

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From: herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of ROBERTS, Mike
Sent: 09 February 2009 15:21
To: herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Herts] Meeting ?

Hi Darren,

That does look useful. Thanks very much for the info. I am trying to set
up a diskless client system which only has the bare minimum of X,  and
perhaps fluxbox or similar, and a single application running with
drivers for an interface card. It will be networked but I have to
installl a stand alone machine first and then grab the machine's image
via the network to make the diskless client image.

I will give the link a look and try out the suggestion.

Cheers Mike 8-{>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
> [mailto:herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Darren Reilly
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:14 PM
> To: herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Herts] Meeting ?
> 
> Hi Mike 
> 
> Yes this is a very quite list indeed, 5 posts last month and 
> only 9 posts last month and 1 so far this month.
> 
> Are you using the net-install CD of CentOS to do a limited install ?
> 
> I got fed up with the way Red Hat  which therefore CentOS  
> have got the ridiculous idea that it is a good idea to make 
> you burn 4 or 5 CDs when you only want to do a basic no gui 
> server install. This is just plain dumb & stupid and so is 
> having to download the DVD install to do the same and also a 
> lot of the servers I put a no gui install onto don't even 
> have DVD drives in them.
> 
> This is what I was doing up until recently. But not due to a 
> low usage cap of 50GB on my Zen Internet ADSL package I have 
> decided to change my approach and setup a CentOS mirror on my 
> LAN so I only got one hefty rysnc and then afterwards all the 
> installs will be much faster and I will not be duplicating 
> downloaded data over the ADSL.
> 
> The following is taken from
> http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5#head-c79c201900d22f163a445f
134fcc6c91
> 6eb3cb6e 
> 
> 1. Can I install CentOS 5 with just the first CD?
> 
> You can do a minimal install that just requires the first CD 
> by performing the following two steps during the installation:
> 
>     * During the category/task selection, deselect all 
> package categories, and choose the "Customize now" option at 
> the bottom of screen.
>     * During the customized package selection, deselect everything. 
> 
> <!> There are reports that more than CD 1 is required in the following
> case:
> 
>     * If you use some software raid options (this will also 
> require CD 2 and 5) 
> 
> When the anaconda installer notes that additional disks will 
> be required, but you desire a one CD install, the quick 
> answer is one or more of the following approaches:
> 
>     *
> 
>       Trim back and do a minimal install. Then once the 
> install is up and running, pull in more packages with yum, 
> and add more options later.
>     * Use the method: linux text ( Note: you can't do a 
> minimal install using the Text mode, you *must* use the GUI 
> mode if you are looking to install the minimal package set) 
> 
> If you want to avoid using more than one CD, but want to 
> install more than just the minimal set of packages, you could 
> also consider doing a network installation. A network 
> installation ISO (called boot.iso) is available from the 
> 5/os/<arch>/images/ directory on CentOS mirrors.
> 
> It might be worth looking into trying to create a custom 
> install CD with even less on it, but I feel this might be a 
> lot of work for not a lot of benefit but would be interested 
> in hearing other people's views.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Darren
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of ROBERTS, Mike
> Sent: 09 February 2009 14:30
> To: herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Herts] Meeting ?
> 
> 
> 
> All gone very quiet on the Hertslug list.
> 
> Do we need to read pages 60-63 of this months linux format or 
> is it always this quiet at this time of year?
> 
> Anything going on at the meeting on Wednesday?
> 
> Anyone know anything about how to reduce bloat on an install? 
> I need to find out how to squish Red Hat (or Centos) down to 
> DSL proportions (with a limited set of functionality. How do 
> you figure out what are the essentials and what you can leave out?
> 
> Cheers Mike 8-{>
> 
> 
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