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Month: June 2011

  • CentOS Kickstart with local CDROM media and a “http config file”

    At our NYC office, I have a PXE/Kickstart system setup. All I need to do is boot to PXE, and I can install CentOS with very little intervention. I have to choose Server vs Desktop (each choice points to a different http hosted kickstart cfg file.) and I have to setup my partitons how I…

  • VMware ESX and vmdks larger than 256gb

    News to me! if you want to create a vmdk larger than 256 gb, you need to blow away the datastore and re-create it with a larger block size! Move everything off the datastore. Under the configuration tab, Right click and delete the store Click add storage and it will find the unused disk and when Creating…