Re: RHEL 3 kickstart network retrieval issue

On 5/1/08, Tom Brown <tom ng23 net> wrote:

I am having the wierdest issue with RHEL 3 network installs.
When I boot with a RHEL 3 boot media, I use the following boot commandline:
linux ks=http://myhost/RHEL3.ks ksdevice=eth0 ip=<MYIP> netmask=<MYNETMASK> gateway=<MYGATEWAY> dns=<MYDNS>
Anaconda boots up but it fails at installing. I switch over to a terminal and it shows that anaconda has failed to retrieve the kickstart file from the network and also I see a no route to host error. Does not look like the network device is being set up correctly based upon the boot commandline parameters.
To Troubleshoot to make sure it wasn't the kickstart file that was the problem, I stuck this same kickstart file as an embedded kickstart on the cd and it worked fine. So that doesn't get me anywhere and validates that my actual kickstart file doesn't have errors and can install an OS So, I try doing the same thing but with RHEL 4 media and a RHEL4 based kickstart using the boot commandline
linux ks=http://myhost/RHEL4.ks ksdevice=eth0 ip=<MYIP> netmask=<MYNETMASK> gateway=<MYGATEWAY> dns=<MYDNS>
Everything works fine using RHEL 4 and the command line stated right above.
Are their known issues with setting network parameters at the command line with RHEL 3?

is your required NIC driver in the RHEL 3 image? what hardware are you using?

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