On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Peter Matulis wrote: > Thanks for this Carl. > > For myself, I was trying to store the ks.cfg file(s) on the NFS server. You > definitely require a DHCP server to lease the client an address in order to > connect to the NFS server. Putting the ks.cfg on the floppy provides this > instead. > Peter-- How are you starting the kickstart process? Do you use a netboot install floppy where you enter the command: linux ks=nfs If so, according to the document: Red Hat Linux 7.1: The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide Chapter 2, Kickstart Installations (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/custom-guide/ ch-kickstart2.html) explicity says that DHCP is used to configure the ethernet card. I believe that this is _only_ for kickstart and that the "network" directive in ks.cfg takes over, but that doesn't help you out of your predicament. I now dimly recall that we switched to putting the kickstart config file on a floppy precisely for this reason--we didn't want to put all of these machines into DHCP.... We still want to install over NFS, so we put the CD contents onto a NFS server and specify the installation method as "nfs" in ks.cfg. Carl 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
