> oops, looks like I spoke too soon -- I am not seeing any hits in the > webserver log as a result of attempting this kickstart.... so > it's not even > connecting to the webserver.... > > I changed the URL line in my ks.cfg to this: > > url --url http://10.9.5.72:8080/kickstart > > Under the kickstart directory on that webserver is mounted > disk 1 of the > RedHat 7.2 distribution (i.e. > http://10.9.5.72:8080/kickstart/RedHat/ is a > valid directory). > > The third VT now adds the following lines to the log of what loader is > trying to do, right after it sets the hostname) > > * url address 10.9.5.72:8080 > * url prefix /kickstart > * copying file to fd 11 > * wrote 7 339549 bytes > * transferring > http://10.9.5.72:8080//kickstart/RedHat/base/netstg1.img to a fd Here it is trying to get the netstg1.img from the location that you gave it. It cannot get it, so it tries this: > * transferring > http://10.9.5.72:8080//kickstart/disc1/RedHat/base/netstg1.img to a fd > and then on the main VT I get an error dialog that says > "File /kickstart/RedHat/base/netstg1.img not found on server." > John My guess is that it is the :8080 port that is failing. Can you try it on the standard port 80? Also, you need to have both discs mounted, and apparently the loader will check for disc1/ and disc2/ in the directory that you give. Forrest
