Hi Guys,
I'm trying to make a kickstart installation of a PE2650 with Redhat7.2 ,
here is all what I've done and what goes wrong:
1) Create a floppy bootdisk with 2.4.20-28.7BOOT boot kernel
I've just leave on the modules.cgz the "tg3.o" driver that come with
this kernel and the "scsi_mod.o" module.
I've also copied the new vmlinuz appropriate to the bootdisk
I've modified the syslinux.cfg to these 5 lines
default
prompt 0
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ks=nfs:192.168.0.2:/free/7.2/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img lang=
devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168
2) Export the Redhat7.2 tree instalation from "nevada01"another PE2650
runing redhat7.2 at /free/7.2
3) Install dhcp server on "nevada01" too, here is the dhcpd.conf file
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.10;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
range 192.168.0.3;
}
group {
filename "/free/7.2/ks.cfg";
next-server 192.168.0.2;
}
4) copy the ks.cfg to /free/7.2
The content of /free/7.2 is then Redhat and ks.cfg
5)boot with the bootdisk
The result is this;
After loading initrd.img and vmlinuz, the window "Dynamic IP" appears
with the message sending request for IP information, stay a while ;
nothing happens in the dhcp server; and the famous message "Error
opening:Kickstart file /tmp/ks.cfg:No such file or directory"
When I press OK the IP configuration comes again and this time the
server responds and attributes the adress 192.168.0.3 mentionned in the
dhcpd.conf
What goes wrong, and why this /tmp/ks.cfg is boring me!!!
My purpose is to have the setup from network but I've also tried to make
a kickstart instalation using Redhat 7.2 CDs and bootdisk floppy . I
type at the linux prompt when booting from CD "linux ks=floppy" and
always the /tmp/ks.cfg file not found, I've tried many things with no
result.
Could you please help me to fix this problem.
Rachid,
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