On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Kickstart wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to put our ks.cfgs on an NFS server for our network > installs of Advanced Server 2.1. > > It works great, as long as there is a DHCP server on the wire :-) > > I have been trying to specify a static ip on the Kickstart disk by > editing the "append=" line in syslinux.cfg adding > ip=192.206.2.100:192.206.2.3:192.206.2.1:255.255.255.0:setuphost::off > using the format > ip=client-ip:nfs_server-ip:gateway-ip:netmask:hostname:device:proto that > is in the kernel parameters man page :-) > > BUT, it doesn't work :-(. The kickstart floppy continues to use DHCP. Red Hat's kernels don't support that. You will need to build your own for that to work. > > Any help is appreciated. Can you configure DHCPD to give the IP address you want to that MAC?