Dear All,
I tried to set-up a kickstart installation through PXE and NFS.
On the server I have setup the DHCP, TFTP and NFS.
On dhcpd.conf I have set the :
next-server 192.168.20.100 (the dhcp, tftpd and nfs server).
filename "pxelinux.0"
On the /tftpboot, I moved the /tftpboot/linux-install content to /tftpboot
basically the moved file is pxelinux.0 and the pxelinux.cfg directory.
I have placed on the /tftpboot the vmlinuz and initrd.img from FC2
CD No1 (/images/pxeboot/*) .
To test the system I am putting this in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
label install
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img
IPAPPEND 1
With this configuration, the client is booting OK, pick up the dynamic IP
address from DHCP, start the vmlinuz and initrd.img,
start the text based installation from /sbin/loader OK.
Then I choose to get the install tree from NFS server 192.168.20.100
with directory /tftpdboot/fc2. The installation then goes to windows
interactive mode, and I can install FC2 till its completion OK.
Now I want to use the Kickstart, so I changed the
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
file to this:
label install
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img ks=nfs:192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2/ks.cfg
IPAPPEND 1
I generate the ks.cfg using the GUI Kickstart configurator.
With this configuration during startup, the client load vmlinuz and
initrd.img OK.
then it goes to /sbin/loader and stops there.
On the server I could not see that the NFS request ever being made by
the client.
I have put different flags like netowork ksdevice, etd on the
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
file to no avail.
Can anybody help please.
Do I need to create a specific initrd.img with NFS enable? If yes how
do I do it. Thanks.
FL. Wahidin
