On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Bret Hughes wrote: > I am looking for a solution to remotely installing a redhat-7,1 or > possibly 7.2 if I can get some testing cycles on 20+ identical redhat > 7.1-xfs machines. These machines are bigtime inaccessable and have no > floppy or cds. > > I can boot the kernel from my kickstart disk via lilo but it jumps > directly into a text mode install at the select lang. dialog. > > As near as I can tell what is happening is the syslinux.cfg file is not > seen and thus the append statments passed to the kernel via the > syslinux.cfg are not sent. I have the ks.cfg in /ks/ks.cfg in > initrd.img. > > Googleing for syslinux stuff it appears that syslinux only works from a > fat partition. Is this the case? > > If so can I simply put the append stuff in lilo.conf and rerun lilo? > > And finally, how do I specify the ks.cfg loacation? Is > > append ks=file://ks/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount Hello I do that but with an NFS server. It s very useful to update remore machine. Here s the kick section of my lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz.kick label=kick read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img.kick append="ks=nfs:installtux.int-evry.fr:/var/ftp/pub/ks/elaphe/ks.cfg" > > close? > > any tips appreciated. > > TIA, > Bret > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Eric Doutreleau I.N.T | Tel : +33 (0) 160764687 9 rue Charles Fourier | Fax : +33 (0) 160764321 91011 Evry France | email : Eric.Doutreleau@xxxxxxxxxxx
