On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, moreta wrote: >I've set up my new 9 nfs server and used bootdisk.img to ks my parallel >machines...but I keep getting this nasty message about needing drivers etc... Network drivers are supplied separately on drvnet.img. >I made a cd that contains all of the various information that it needs for its >drivers but...it seems to me that defeats the purpose of kickstart doesn't it? Depends on what one defines the purpose of kickstart to be. If it's to automate the Q+As in the install and allow for custom scripting, then that still works. If it's to allow single-floppy full automated installs, then no, that's not provided any more. >The reason I got into ks was to get it set up so that when my research >students crash their system I can tell them to pop in the floppy and hit >reboot. Now I have to tell them pop in a floppy AND a CD and hit reboot? You could: - Rebuilt bootdisk.img to include the modules you need (not tested, might break some anaconda assumptions about where modules are located). - Customise and burn the provided boot.iso to CD, and install solely from that. - Use a "PXE floppy" or the hardware of the PC to kick off a PXE install, where the network drivers can be transferred over the network :). Hope this helps, Phil
