On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:53, Frank McPherson wrote: I like your return address. ;-) > Hi kickstarters: > > I have been partially successful with rh-7.2 network-based installs. > > I picked an nfs/pxe/tftp server, which is currently running RH-7.2. > > Installed anaconda and anaconda-runtime. > > Put rh-7.2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img and vmlinuz in /etc/tftpboot/... > > I can now run interactive net installs with no issues. I merged in all > the updates and included a new comps file, so I'm not affected by the > perl/Omni dependency issue. > > I use nfs for this. I also have an http server available but had no luck > with that method. What I WANT to do is serve my kickstart config files > from either the nfs server or the http server so I can do > non-interactive installs once I'm past the kernel option passing stage. > > I.E. I want to say Kernel Options: ks=nfs:192.168.1.160/rh-7.2/ks.cfg OR > ks=http://192.168.1.160/rh-7.2/ks.cfg. > The 7.2 installer is broken when it comes to ks=http. It has been fixed in 7.3, the doc is wrong but the code uses ks=http://kickstart/... (The 7.3 installer is broken if you mount the ISOs as say disc1/ disc2/ disc3/ - should be fixed in next version.) I've done nearly what you want in the last few days using 7.3. I have the advantage of having control over my DHCP server. Though not a big deal. On my startup image I put ks=http://kickstart/fs.cfg This is easier and allows me to update on the fly but is hard coded to a specific file and if different profile machines are doing this at the same time... I used my setup above to build my new secondary name server, including putting bind 9.2.1 into a chroot jail. -Chad- > I have tried both methods, where I have /rh-7.2 in my /etc/exports, have > remembered to run exportfs -a, and have placed ks.cfg in /rh-7.2. I have > also put ks.cfg in /var/www/html/rh-7.2, where /var/www/html is my > apache document root. No luck with the non-interactive install with > either of these methods. My ks.cfg points to the RedHat install tree on > the nfs server and mounts just fine. > > The only way I have had a successful non-interactive install is to > modify my initrd.img, place my ks.cfg in there, and refer to it on the > installer kernel boot options line, I.E. options: ks=file:/etc/ks.cfg > > I don't want to do it that way, because I want to be able to easily > modify my ks.cfg. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong with the nfs and > http location of the kickstart file? > > Thanks! > > Frank > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
