On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Patty O'Reilly wrote: >My only experience with kickstart has been to partition, install and >configure redhat linux machines. Is there a way to use kickstart >without the 'install' or 'upgrade' directives to execute a script on an >NFS mounted filesystem? Yes, in a %pre script. You've got storage and network drivers loaded by then, which is enough to do anything interesting. >I want to use the RedHat boot image along with kickstart to boot a >machine and have it access a program on an NFS mounted filesystem which >perform a Windows install. What program will install Windows? I've half-written an unattended installer for Win2K, based on RH kickstart, but it's the world's biggest kludge. The alternative was RIS and Active Directory, which didn't appeal to me. Cheers, Phil