Install PIAF from USB Flash Drive

[dbayer]

RAID install

Hello Bobby,

I saw Ward's post last night, so I burned a disc and used a portable external DVD Drive to install Piaf.

By the time I read your post, I had already got it installed. I feel bad, considering how much effort you put into your reply. If I have to do a reinstall I will take the time to make the changes your suggested and do a flash drive install.

I'm a Linux newbie, but I have Windows administration and programming experience, so you're changes seem easy enough to implement.

Thanks,
Daniel

 

[bmore]

Hello Bobby,

I saw Ward's post last night, so I burned a disc and used a portable external DVD Drive to install Piaf.

Thanks,
Daniel

No problem. The answer may be helpful to someone else.

Bobby

 

[freaky al]

Installed new PIAF2 from Flash drive on EEE PC

Greets to all the forum members and the PIAF team. You guys do great work. :rockonb:

HUGE thanks to bmore and the others for all the previous work. It is easy when one stands on the shoulders of giants.

After a couple agonizing days (where I learned a lot about kickstart) I managed to get PIAF2 to install from a flash drive on an Asus EEE PC. I am posting the first part of the kickstart file here for anyone who might find it useful. I provisioned all the options so that it is a completely automated/unattended install.

For some reason CentOS 6 kept detecting the SATA drive as sdc and the flash drive as sdb. So I manually specified the drives for partitioning since I couldn't get the drive detection script to work and didn't use it at the bottom of the ks.cfg file.

From the error messages I got it seems that method has been depricated and replaced by repo. Which meant I had to remove references to it from syslinux.cfg and add a repo line to ks.cfg. I also used the following ks statement in syslinux.cfg ... ks=hd:sdb1:ks.cfg.

In the CentOS folder on the flash drive I had the iso image, the images and repodata directories, as well as the .discinfo and .treeinfo files from within the iso. I also put the RPM-GPG* files in there as well but that might not have been necessary.

install
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone <timezone>
rootpw <password>
network --bootproto=static --ip=<ip> --netmask=<mask> --gateway=<gw_ip> --nameserver=<dns_ip> --device=eth0 --hostname=<hostname> --onboot=on
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
auth --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
harddrive --partition=sdb1 --dir=/CentOS
bootloader --append="crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --driveorder=sdc
repo --name=piaf --baseurl=file:///mnt/isodir/CentOS
logging --level=info
zerombr
clearpart --drives=sdc --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondrive=sdc
part / --fstype ext3 --size=1024 --grow --ondrive=sdc
part swap --size=256 --grow --maxsize=768 --ondrive=sdc
text
skipx
reboot