Are you working with an power arch machine with an open firmware? If so, at open firmware prompt, you can trigger the noninteractive network installatin by running such a command:
0>boot /pci@400000000211/pci@2/ethernet@1: ks=nfs:NFS_SERVER_IP:/PATH_TO_KSCFG/ks.cfg
Here, "/pci@400000000211/pci@2/ethernet@1" is device info of my working NIC. Please find your own exact string from SMS menu.
After getting boot image by bootp, this client machine will launch that image. And, "ks=nfs:..." will be passed to that image as kernel parameter.
Rgds,
WangNan
Joerg Maier <JMAIER@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent by: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 2004-06-02 17:36 | To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: netboot/install on power architecture |
He,
i have a question regarding automated installation (without any
interaction) and the location of the kickstart file. Pxeboot is not
supported by architecture reason. dhcp-option filename is used to give
redhat-netboot-image filename to the client.
I did not find any possibility to tell the network-booting client where to
get the ks.cfg file. Is it not possible to use kickstart in this specific
environment? Then i have to write a expect script, maybe python with
module pexpect, but this seems this is hard to maintain through different
version.
Best Regards,
Joerg Maier
JS20 Service Team
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH - Lab Boeblingen
phone: 49-7031-16-4762 (T/L: 120-4762)
mail: jmaier@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.de.ibm.com/entwicklung/
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