<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:ns0="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi List, <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I looked through the last 2 years of archives and didn’t find anything covering this.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> My question(s):<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Short version: Are kickstart installations allowed under RHEL4 WS? NFS installations under RHEL4 WS?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Long version:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’m trying to install RHEL4 on several new Dell Precision 470 workstations via NFS.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I set up one of the servers with an NFS globally exported directory /home/RHEL4/ which contains:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> RedHat/<o:p></o:p> Base/ (hdlists, comps, hdstg2, img files…)<o:p></o:p> RPMS/ (all RPMS from all of the RedHat directories on the RHEL4 CDs)<o:p></o:p> TRANS.TBL<o:p></o:p> Ks.cfg <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I try to install from this host via NFS after booting off of a boot CD that I created exactly as described in the RHEL4 manual from redhat.com. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I hit <F2> when it boots off of the CD to specify installer boot options and as the RHEL4 sysadmin-guide states, I try to install with the following command:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> linux ks=nfs:cad:/home/RHEL4/ks.cfg<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I want it to look for the kickstart file on the NFS server “cad” under /home/RHEL4/ks.cfg <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The installer finds the kickstart file and uses it. I initially had a full ks.cfg file, but have been scaling it back step by step to try and get it to work. Currently it looks like this:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> #Generated by Kickstart Configurator<o:p></o:p> #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> #System language<o:p></o:p> lang en_US<o:p></o:p> #Language modules to install<o:p></o:p> langsupport en_US<o:p></o:p> #System keyboard<o:p></o:p> keyboard us<o:p></o:p> #System mouse<o:p></o:p> mouse<o:p></o:p> #Sytem timezone<o:p></o:p> timezone America/Los_Angeles<o:p></o:p> #Root password<o:p></o:p> rootpw --iscrypted blahblahblahpasswordgoeshereblahblah<o:p></o:p> #Reboot after installation<o:p></o:p> reboot<o:p></o:p> #Install OS instead of upgrade<o:p></o:p> install<o:p></o:p> #Use NFS installation Media<o:p></o:p> nfs --server=cad.foo.bar.com --dir=/home/RHEL4/<o:p></o:p> #System bootloader configuration<o:p></o:p> bootloader --location=mbr <o:p></o:p> #Clear the Master Boot Record<o:p></o:p> zerombr yes<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I used the Kickstart Configurator tool to generate a Kickstart file. When I boot with this ks.cfg it takes me up to the Disk Druid configuration. I set up the drives (2x300GB) with 2 RAID1 partitions, 1 ext2 partition (/boot) and swap on each drive. When I finish making the md0 and md1 devices and click “next” to continue out of Disk Druid I get the following error message dialog window:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> “You are trying to install on a machine which isn’t supported by this release of RedHat Linux WS”<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> There is a button marked “Exit” which exits the install and reboots if clicked.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> It’s odd to me that if I install off of CDs I can do the same thing (RAID volumes and all) but if I try to install over NFS, then my machine isn’t supported. I just tried it with automatic partitioning and it did the same thing. Ditto w/o any RAID or LVM partitions.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Is this a restriction of the WS version of RedHat?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Are network installs only available with the ES and AS versions? <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Are Kickstart installs only available with ES and AS?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs using RHEL4 WS ? <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks for your time spent reading this far. J<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> *Jason<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>