On Tue Nov 21 2000 at 08:03, "Cagle, John" wrote: > I've got kickstart working *without* a DNS server, so I don't think that DNS > is required. DNS _is_ required (although not necessarily a dns server). The nfs (mountd) server needs to know the name of the requesting client (ie, resolve the IP address to a name) which is requesting the nfs mount, even if that name is supplied using the server's /etc/hosts file and not via the /etc/resolv.conf nameservers. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: liefting@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liefting@xxxxxxxxxx] > > > > Yes. In order for a networked kickstart to work you need to > > have a DHCP > > server, a DNS server and an NFS server. All three set up correctly. > > > > I don't know if it has been changed already, but it used to > > be that even if > > you specified bootproto static, it would still use DHCP for IP address > > lookup while installing, but would configure the static IP > > addresses in > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 in order to boot > > with static IP > > addresses. > > > > - Wouter. Cheers Tony
