On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > > So it is confirmed that a DHCP server is required for an NFS kickstart > > installation of 7.1 ? This is not the case for 7.2 > > This is not confirmed for RH7.1. I have done many kickstart installations using NFS. Here is part of the header from one of my ks.cfg files (fake IP addresses...): # I N S T A L L A T I O N M E T H O D nfs --server 111.222.333.444 --dir /RedHat/7.1/OS_CD # L A N G U A G E S P E C I F I C A T I O N lang en_US # N E T W O R K C O N F I G U R A T I O N network --bootproto static --ip 111.222.333.555 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 111.222.333.100 --nameserver 111.222.333.444 --hostname my.linux.desktop.box # D E V I C E S P E C I F I C A T I O N device ethernet 3c59x I put this file onto a RH7.1 boot floppy, then issue "linux ks=floppy" after the floppy boots. I've done about 20 machines this way. Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -> > in the ks > > -> > bootproto --static ya,da,ya,da,ya,da ip/namserver/gateway > > -> > > > -> > and an install method of ks=nfs:<server:>/<path> > > -> > > > -> > yours a.r.b. > > -> > > > -> > think this works, had a variant a while a go. > > -> > > -> This will work for a static IP post-install, but you still > > -> have to use DHCP > > -> in the beginning... > > -> > > -> Forrest > > I'm glad that they finally fixed that. I haven't tried RH 7.2 kickstart w/o > DHCP, yet, so I'll have to give it a whirl... How did you setup the static > IP? > > Forrest > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
