On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: >I am trying to setup a PXE/Kickstart box so that I can do some >unattended installs remotely. [snip] >Which also seems to work, but what isnt working properly is the ks=nfs >statement. My favourite 3 debugging questions: - What did you do? - What happened? - What do you think should happen? You've gone into plenty of detail for #1, but I can't see any report of an actual problem. >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) Then it looks like the kickstart file has been found and read successfully. Remember that "ks=nfs" is only instructing anaconda to fetch the kickstart file and second stage over NFS; the kickstart file itself can specify a different source for the RPMs. >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/ That's a way of extending/fixing anaconda with patches. Can be ignored. [snip] >* 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. OK. All looks fine so far - does it hang at this point? Cheers, Phil
