Joe, Which version of Red Hat are you using? I have been kickstarting RH8 systems using e1000 from an RH9 server since last year without going near anaconda code. Maybe it's the network I am using, there is just a Netgear hub between my kickstart/dhcp/tftp server and the servers I am building. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Robertson Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 02:07 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Issue with Aquiring DHCP Andy, What kind of ethernet NIC do you have? (e1000 driver?) I've been fighting this problem for quite some time - trying to get kickstart via NFS to work. I finally found a solution!!!! It requires changing anaconda and rebuilding the entire distribution. I'll be reporting on this as soon as I am confident in the accuracy of the method. Basically it requires checking for failures in such things as attempting an NFS mount (or in your example getting a DHCP lease) and trying again (perhaps multiple times) if the initial attempts fail. Granted, this seems like a patch but I'm not sure what the 'correct' solution should be. It does seem that this is going to work for me - at least to get kickstart going. Having said that, there are still failures obtaining the IP address via PXE during boots subsequent to the install. I haven't determined what to do to resolve this yet. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
