Yes, if you can get it working, it will work well. In general, I find that kickstart and jumpstart (of Solaris) requires you to have intimate knowledge of your equipment, network settings and many many other details regarding your environment to work smoothly. Regarding server name vs. server ip, using IP address is alway safe, and if your DHCP server is configured to provide DNS infor, serve name should be OK as well. As a previous person suggested, you can configure DHCP server to issue boot file name so that you just type "linux ks" at boot prompt to get the whole thing going. Just as using server Ip address, specify bootfile name explicitely is the safest way to start kickstart, expecially if your client is on a different network (and served by a different dhcp server) from your kickstart server. Yiping -----Original Message----- From: David T-G [mailto:davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:34 PM To: kickstart list Cc: yiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: >really< hands-off install Yiping -- ...and then yiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said... % Since you are already installing over the net, why not simply put your % ks.cfg on the nfs server where your linux images are from ? Oooh; I like that even more (assuming, of course, I'll be able to get it running at all). % % at boot prompt, just type the following, assuming the path to your ks.cfg % is exported already: % % boot: linux ks=nfs:your-server-name:/path/to/ks.cfg I wonder if I'll have to specify the server by IP address because DNS is not yet configured because ks.cfg has not yet been read... % % Yiping Thanks! :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxx * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
