from the docs, it's clear that, when you specify an NFS server with an installation tree for kickstart, kickstart expects to find the directory structure RedHat/RPMS under the given directory nameD (ignoring the possibility of ISO images for the time being). but, technically, what has to be exported from the server side? the full directory? or just the <dir>/RedHat/RPMS directory? i guess, rephrasing this, does kickstart try to mount the directory name it's been given, *then* cd into RedHat/RPMS, or does it mount specifically the <dir>/RedHat/RPMS directory and take it from there? rday