Re: Chicken or egg? NFS file and network driver?

[Peter Fales <psfales lucent com>]

Thanks for the hint.  Yes, that seems to work, and it's probably the
best alternative, though it eliminates any system without a bootable 
CD.  Fortunately, there aren't many systems we care about that 
absolutely can't use the CD.  The main advantage of the floppy is that
we have a lot of laptop users that have a drive bay that can take
either a CD drive or a floppy drive.  In the past I've been able to
offer them a choice of using the CD or the floppy, depending on which
one they brought to work that day, etc.


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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:19:40PM -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> Peter Fales wrote:
> >I would like to have my kickstart floppy specify the location of the
> >of the kickstart file on network, without using the DHCP server, since
> >the DHCP server is out of my control.
> >
> >This worked fine with RedHat 7.x and 8.0, but as far as I can tell, it is
> >not possible with RedHat 9.  The kickstart file can tell it where to find
> >the network driver, but without a network driver, it can't get the
> >kickstart file.
> >
> >The only alternative I can see is to store the kickstart configuration
> >file directly on the boot floppy.  That's a problem because it means 
> >whenever
> >the kickstart configuration changes, I have to distribute new boot
> >disks.  With the earlier releases, I could distribute one boot floppy, and
> >if a change is needed, all I have to do is change the copy on the NFS
> >server - people can continue to use the same boot disk.
> >
> >Am I missing something?  The RedHat 9 scheme feels like a step backward
> >to me.
> >
> 
> What about using the boot.iso image?  Make the changes to the 
> isolinux.cfg file and get it to get the ks.cfg file over the network.
> 
> Forrest
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