Tom, Typically we boot from a floppy which contains the ks.cfg. We then install over NFS since we have our internal distribution on various NFS servers around the globe. Folks have noted that they've been able to install over NFS when their VPN connection is over Cable Modem, but not over DSL. A lot of folks have to manually alter MTU to 1400 since VPN adds overhead. I believe Marc wants to know if we can tell loader or anaconda to use MTU 1400 so kickstart over VPN over DSL will work :) /Brian/ On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 17:55, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Marc De Preter wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > This might be slightly off-topic, but how does one kickstart a machine > > over a DSL connection ? > > What is you are really trying to do? Just download the kickstart file?? > Actually boot from a remote server?? Dload the ks file and install via > ftp or http?? Any or all of these are easially doable assuming you have > a working net connection be it dsl or whatever. > > > There's the MTU value that needs to be set somewhere before the loader > > downloads the ks.cfg from the net, but what would be the exact parameter > > to pass to the kernel ? > > Why?? It should do MTU discovery on its own or use a sane default value. > What method are you using to boot the machine?? cd, floppy, network (PXE), > grub?? > > > I've been googling a bit for this, but couldn't find any doc :( > > I routinely boot either from grub or PXE on a local network and pull the > ks-cfg file from a remote http server. It "just works"(tm). > > HTH, > > ........Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- Brian Long | | | Americas IT Hosting Sys Admin | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s
