On Monday 09 September 2002 19:37, Siao Yuan Tan wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to kickstart and has created a kick start using ftp method and > it works fine. The problem is now I have 300 machines and all has a > Highpoint IDE RAID card. Is there a way to have kickstart load the > driver from my ftp server as well. The kickstart driverdisk option need > the driver to be on the hard disk first, this method seems like useless > as all machine has brand new hard disk. Here, I customise my floppy by changing the configuration file: [summer@numbat summer]$ cat /misc/floppy/syslinux.cfg default ks prompt 1 timeout 1 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 general.msg F3 param.msg F4 rescue.msg F7 snake.msg label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 vga=788 label text kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 label expert kernel vmlinuz append expert initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 label ks kernel vmlinuz append ks=http://cc.computerdatasafe.com.au/RedHat/7.3/ks/client.ks initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 label nofb kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount nofb ramdisk_size=8192 label lowres kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img lang= lowres devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 [summer@numbat summer]$ This boots without waiting for the prompt, and gets the ks file from my web server. I prefer this as it's easier to change the ks file there than on the floppy. Once Anaconda loads I take it out. You can then use the disk for the next machine. If you're doing lots of machines, carry several floppies - a whole box if you want. I've got a few minutes (dependingon how fast your machines install) to retrieve them, and you probably don't want all three hundred going at once. You can set up PXE (provided you're more skilled than I!), but you then may have to fiddle with 300 BIOS settings twice. You could also burn your boot floppies to CD-RW (be sure to do it propery, using mkisofs) so the machines boot faster. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
