Eric Doutreleau wrote: > 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" > Thanks Eric that is exactly what I was hoping for but better. Does this append statement do what I think it does, namely get the kicKstart config file of an nfs server? I had no idea that was possible but it makes sense since I am doing a nfs install anyway. Thanks again I am off to test right now. Bret
