Hi, Thanks for the reply. One quick question: 1. You mention copying stuff to the HD. The Redhat docs mention copying stuff (like a driver disk image, for example) to the hard drive as well. However, if there's no OS on the drive, how the h*** does that work? Is there some magic to putting stuff on a disk with no filesystem on it? Are people installing first from the CD just to have something there to copy to? Doesn't this sorta defeat the efficiency of an automated install - and thus, its purpose? Thanks again. On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 03:49, Florian Festi wrote: > > I'm doing some kickstarts on machines that boot up using dhcp, and then > > they mount the install media using nfs. Problem is, it seems that it > > tries to mount the nfs directory 3 times, after which it automagically > > falls back to looking on the CD (which I really only use to boot) for > > the installation media. > > AFAIK there are three different images for the installation. One for CD > installation, one for network installation and one for installing from > images on hd. If you want to do a NFS installation you need to boot the > RHCD:images/bootnet.img. You can do this by copying it to floppy or CD or > by copying the included vmlinuz and initrd.img on HD and boot them. > > > The thing is - I don't want it to do that AT ALL. Is there a way to > > say: > > > > "Mount your install media here, and if you try 3 times and it still > > fails, then just tell me instead of falling back to the cd, or halt or > > something"? > > Yes. Do not use the Red Hat install CD. > > > Florian Festi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- Brian K. Jones System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University http://www.linuxlaboratory.org jonesy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice: (609) 258-6080
