Re: Integrate kickstart with PXE

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, a m wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Please advise how to integrate my kickstart setup with
> pxe.
> 
> I have:
> 
> 1) A perfect working kickstart setup.
> 2) A windows 2000 machine acting as DHCP server.
Oh dear.
> 3) A Linux system configured as PXE server.Installed
> RPM for PXE and configured the files /etc/services,
> /etc/xinetd.conf and /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/etc/pxe.conf
> and /etc/mftpd.conf are taken as default).

I'd trash the W box, run DHCP on Linux. Doing that, you don't need the
pxe package.

> 
> Now when I boot my pxe compliant client by making
> "Network" as the first boot device, it finds the IP
> address from the DHCP server, boots from the PXE
> server and then waits for NFS image and other
> configuration (language, mouse, disk partitioning
> etc..).
> 
> Any suggestions here will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> AM
> 
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