I have been running around with this one for a little bit and getting no where. Hopefully someone on this list can give me a couple of pointers to get kickstart to do a full install with PXE. My basic approach is to boot a system using PXE and then allow kickstart to proceed with the install of Linux with no interaction from the user other than maybe to select the type of system to be installed. What I currently have running is PXE downloading and starting the kernel from my tftp server. Currently I have PXE downloading a secondary bootstrap (bpbatch) which then downloads the kernel and transfer control over to the kernel. When the kernel starts up, it gets its root filesystem from a NFS server. Up to this point, everything works fine. After the root filesystem is mounted, kickstart executes and reads in the kickstart configuration file. The major problem that I have is that in the kickstart configuration file my network line looks like "network --bootproto dhcp" becuase the resulting system needs to obtain the network information through DHCP. As soon as kickstart gets to this point, it then begins to attempt to get another DHCP lease which breaks the NFS mount and because the IP gets cleared out of the stack and the sytsem goes throught the typical NFS locking problems. How does one get around this issue? Is there a way to specify the network line so that the system is setup for DHCP without destroying the current stack? Thanks. -- Gerard Hickey email: Gerard.Hickey@xxxxxxx National Semiconductor Corporation phone: +1 207 541 6101 Information Appliance Group, MS 03-03 fax: +1 207 541 6108 5 Foden Road, South Portland, Maine 04106-1706 OpenPGP Fingerprint: 1123 383E 60B4 922A 2E41 0B18 52F6 0665 BDCF 6668
