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Old 03-28-2011
Kickstart server

Hello everyone,

I have problem while configuring kickstart server .i have performed some steps but still i am unable to configure kickstart server on CentOS 5.4.
I have performed following steps:-
Code:
yum install system-config-kickstart
mkdir /kickstart
mount /dev/cdrom /media
cd /media
copied the packages from CentOS DVD to /kickstart

cp -var * /kickstart
shared the /kickstart with the help of nfs
yum install dhcp

But i dont know what to do next....can anybody give me whole idea of configuring whole kickstart server

Last edited by pludi; 03-28-2011 at 04:50 AM..
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Old 03-28-2011
Read up here
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Old 05-03-2011
thanks mate.. keep it up
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