On Tue, 25 May 2004, Hong Zhu wrote: >We would like to use kickstart to install RH WS 3 on a blade, which >only has one USB port for either CDROM drive or floppy drive but not at >same time. Not even with a USB hub? >I have the ks.cfg on the floppy diskette, and ok to boot the >blade from RH CDROM to the boot command. How am I able to perform >kickstart without cdrom and floppy being available at same time? - Pack all the network and storage drivers you need onto a single floppy (see list archives) - Put the kickstart file on the CD (see list archives) - Put the kickstart file on an NFS/HTTP server, and read it over the network. >BTW, I also tried to store the ks.cfg on the NFS server (NAS), >then booted from RH CDROM to boot prompt, and issued: >ks=nfs:nfs-server-ip-address:/path/to/ks.cfg > >but it just hung. I think it requires the use of DHCP server Try passing the IP address on the kernel command line, e.g. linux ks=nfs:n.n.n.n:/path ip=x.x.x.x netmask=y.y.y.y gateway=z.z.z.z dns=d.d.d.d See /usr/share/doc/anaconda-9.1.1 (assuming RHEL3) for full documentation. Cheers, Phil
