Yes, this is what we will be doing too until I get around to installing a DHCP server on an existing Linux machine. This machine currently services our Windows network (Samba, Bugzilla, MySQL, Apache) but fortunately it has two ethernet devices. So I will be able to tell dhcpd to bind to only one of those interfaces which will then connect to the new LANs I will be setting up for various projects without interferring with our current Windows DHCP server, at least in theory. Peter Matulis -> -----Original Message----- -> From: Carl Riches [mailto:riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] -> Sent: November 21, 2001 3:21 PM -> To: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx' -> Subject: RE: 7.1 nfs install requires DHCP? -> -> -> 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 _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
