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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:04 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> > “You are trying to install on a machine which isn’t supported by this<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> > release of RedHat Linux WS”<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> That smels like it's not seeing the RPMs. I strongly suspect that using<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> the IP address instead of the host name will solve this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Nope. No difference when I use the IP address. It sees the ks.cfg file on the server and uses it for answers to lang, langsupport, keyboard, mouse, timezone, root PW, etc… so in theory it *<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>should</span></b>* still be able to find the same server for RPMs. In any case, I tried it with IP only to take DNS out of the equation and got the same “isn’t supported” message.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> > Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> > using RHEL4 WS ? <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> Cloning the disk using Ghost or something like it would be far faster<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> than a kickstart/NFS install. Install one machine. At the end,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> DON'T let it restart. Just shut down. Pop in a drive from one of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> other machines (re-address it first), then use Ghost to clone the disk.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> Address the drive back to its original setting and put it back in the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> new machine. When it boots, you'll go through the initial set-up<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> ("firstboot") stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Do you know of any non-windows solutions? It’s funny that Redhat provides this great network install tool but it doesn’t work, or even give a sane error message. Since I bought the machines preloaded from Dell, Redhat won’t provide any support at all. Nice. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks for your answers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>*Jason<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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