List readers - I am trying to setup a PXE/Kickstart box so that I can do some unattended installs remotely. What I have setup so far is: 1) a yum repository serving up my RPMS 2) the fc2 install base shared via nfs 3) a dhcp server dishing out the private Ips and paths to pxelinux.0 4) a tftp server serving up the pxelinux.0 bootloader and related kernel I have it successfully pulling the pxelinux.0 and according to the message log it appears to read the pxelinux.cfg/default file which has the following contents: [root@yum1 pxelinux.cfg]# cat 0A DEFAULT linux SERIAL 0,38400n8 LABEL linux KERNEL vmlinuz-fc2 APPEND ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd-fc2.img network ip=dhcp ks=nfs:10.10.232.54:/tftp/ks-fc2.cfg Which also seems to work, but what isnt working properly is the ks=nfs statement. All services are running on the same box, and everything is served up via tftp and nfs, as in the following: ls -la /tftpboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 17 08:22 10.10.232.54-kickstart -> ks-fc2.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2443013 Jun 16 09:56 initrd-fc2.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 16 10:18 Kickstart_end drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 19:08 ks -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Jun 17 08:22 ks-fc2.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12952 Jun 16 10:08 pxelinux.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 10:12 pxelinux.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1209805 Jun 16 09:56 vmlinuz-fc2 And ls -la /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 17 09:59 0A -> default.netboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 17 09:59 0A0A -> default.netboot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Jun 17 08:29 default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 17 09:59 default.netboot -> default.netboot-fc2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Jun 17 10:12 default.netboot-fc2 I can see the server actually loading the bootloader and I can see this in the messages log now: Jun 16 14:11:48 yum1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 10.10.232.80:750 for /repo/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os (/repo) But I am unsure if it is able to find my kickstart config file. The /repo above is of course the install base (Fedora/images/etc under the OS tree). Here is my current ks-fc2.cfg file for completeness: # Kickstart file automatically generated. install nfs --server=10.10.232.54 --dir=/repo/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us skipx network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname ag800 network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp --hostname ag800 rootpw --iscrypted $1$.pio2F.qewfj0iy2342^ firewall --disabled selinux --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/New_York bootloader --location=mbr --append rhgb quiet # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work clearpart --linux part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=101 part /disk2 --fstype ext3 --size=12289 part / --fstype ext3 --size=12289 part swap --size=2048 part /weblog --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow %packages --resolvedeps @ web-server @ mail-server @ dns-server @ dialup @ network-server @ sql-server @ editors @ admin-tools @ system-tools @ news-server @ smb-server @ authoring-and-publishing @ sound-and-video @ server-cfg @ graphics @ ftp-server @ development-tools @ engineering-and-scientific @ text-internet kernel-smp grub e2fsprogs %post # The Last Thing happening in Kickstart: # get a file via TFTP which indicates we are done. echo "get Kickstart_end" | /usr/bin/tftp 10.10.232.54 Now, when I rebooted this test box this morning, it grabs an IP from the dhcp server, is able to receive and load the pxelinux bootloader, but in the virtual console 3 I see the following after it runs through and loads the kernel: * NFS install method detected will use Rhupdates/ * Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda * Display mode=t * Method = nfs://mnt/source/ . * ddcprobe returned bogus values: ID Name HorizSync VertSync * anaconda floppy devices is fd0 * Running kickstart %pre scripts * All kickstart %pre scripts have been run Which confuses me a little bit as I don't quite understand where its getting the nfs methof pointing to Rhupdates and some of the other stuff. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help in advance. Michael Weiner
