CentOS installation as kickstart pxe server

Introduction

Installation of Centos 5.2 as a PXE server to install Centos Servers via the network.
The reason for this project is that we need to teach the students Linux Clustering, and the students need to install a CentOS cluster. This server will reduce the time needed to install several cluster nodes.

Installation of CentOS 5.2

Harddisk partitionering

Single harddisk 40GB (Quite small, but the only one i could find)

Hard disk partitions

Mount point	Type	Size
/	ext3	1.000 MB
/boot	ext3	1.000 MB
/var	ext3	4.000 MB
/tmp	ext3	1.000 MB
/usr	ext3	10.000 MB
/home	ext3	15.000 MB
swap	swap	2.000 MB

New Machine found

SATA Harddisk sda 115 GB SATA Harddisk sdb 305 GB

Hard disk partitions

Harddisk	Mount point	Type	Size
sda	/	ext3	5.000 MB
sda	/boot	ext3	4.000 MB
sda	/var	ext3	25.000 MB
sda	/tmp	ext3	25.000 MB
sda	/usr	ext3	40.000 MB
sdb	/home	ext3	150.000 MB
sda	swap	swap	5.000 MB
sdb	swap	swap	5.000 MB

Choosing installation categories

• Desktop - Gnome
• Desktop - KDE
• Server
• Server - GUI