Re: [CentOS] How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

2020-05-21 Thread Earl Ramirez
> * Provision a VM with standard CentOS 7 NetInstall ISO & my post > script. The file system is created on top of LVM > * Export entire VM as custom ISO image to be loaded into physical > hardware > * Kickstart physical hardware using above exported custom image & > different grub/isoli

Re: [CentOS] How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

2020-05-21 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
Dear All, > It seems like kickstart is what you are looking for.? > Is this what you were trying to do? Yes, kickstart is what I’m looking for. Let me detail my provisioning process: * Provision a VM with standard CentOS 7 NetInstall ISO & my post script. The file system is created on top o

Re: [CentOS] How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

2020-05-20 Thread Larry Apolonio
It seems like kickstart is what you are looking for.  I have done this heavily the past few months. I have created iso, pxe boot, and created custom usb flash drives. The iso method works for my on my ESXi host VMs, the USB one needed a boot cd to test on my ESXi host that later transferred th

Re: [CentOS] How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

2020-05-15 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
Dear Earl Ramirez, >I created a custom ISO a couple of years ago [0], you can use it as >your base of one of the following links[1-4], should be sufficient to >get you started. >[0] https://github.com/EarlRamirez/snipeit_iso In above github project, in https://github.com/EarlRamirez/snipeit_iso

Re: [CentOS] How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

2020-05-14 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 19:47 +, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > Dear All, > > I want to create a CentOS 7 VMWARE VM. I need to install various > Runtime libraries, e.g., Tomcat, into the VM. Once all looks good, > then I want to make a Custom Image of the entire VM. Later I want to > load this Custom Im

[CentOS] How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

2020-05-14 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
Dear All, I want to create a CentOS 7 VMWARE VM. I need to install various Runtime libraries, e.g., Tomcat, into the VM. Once all looks good, then I want to make a Custom Image of the entire VM. Later I want to load this Custom Image to a physical HW, so that I don’t need to go through all kind