>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.
Exactly.
here how it s proceed
first there s a dhcp request to get temporary network information.
then it have all the information to mount the directory from the nfs server
then u have to have a working dhcp server on your network
>
>Thanks again I am off to test right now.
>
>Bret
>
>
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