I've setup a system as you described with 2 diferences: 1 - I've used pxelinux instead of bpbatch 2 - My DHCP is configured to provide always de same IP to each MAC address. Since DHCPd should "give" the same IP to a specific MAC maybe the problem mau be with bpbatch. Try to force your DHCPd server to return the same IP to your machine and see if you still have a problem. I can attach my configuration ( already sent on 25 mar to this list ) if you want to see what i have done. Z. On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 22:28, Gerard Hickey wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat."
