CentOS¶
CentOS is a free operating system distribution based upon the Linux kernel. It is derived entirely from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, Red Hat. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System. CentOS is the most popular Linux distribution for web servers with almost 30% of all Linux web servers using it.
CentOS 5 x86¶
Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz and the entire ISO to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/i386/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/i386/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/5/i386/ #Repeate this phase for both DVD ISO files
CentOS 5 x64¶
Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz and the entire ISO to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/x86_64/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/x86_64/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/5/x86_64/ #Repeate this phase for both DVD ISO files
CentOS 6 x86¶
Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz and the entire ISO to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/i386/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/i386/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/6/i386/
CentOS 6 x64¶
Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz and the entire ISO to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)