<tt>On 7/13/06, Warren_Crigger@navyfederal.org <Warren_Crigger@navyfederal.org> wrote: >> >> Thanks in advance for any help! Sorry in advance too for such a long mail, >> but I hope I provided enough details. >> >> I have been tasked with setting up automated linux installs for our company. >> This was an easy task for SuSE (even though I like RH/Fedora/CentOS better, >> but I gotta do both =p), but I'm running into issues with RHEL4AS. >> >> I do not have the luxury of using DHCP and the normal method of kickstart, >> so I made a custom boot CD with the isolinux directory and TRANS.TBL file on >> it from the actual RHEL4AS disk (that's it!). I can boot normally and from >> there give it testing kickstart boot options which are: >> >> linux ks=http://<ip>/profiles/ks.cfg ip=<ip> netmask=<netmask> >> gateway=<gateway> ksdevice=eth0 >> >> It then loads the kernel, starts to grab files off the remote server (see >> logs below), fires up anaconda, detects the video/mouse/etc, and then says: >> >> "you are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this >> release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES" >Odd that we switched from AS to ES here. What is in the remote tree? >Can you install from the network installation tree interactively? I >don't recall the error you get when trying to install from a tree that >doesn't match the boot image used ... but make sure there isn't a >mismatch there.</tt> <tt>Good catch, I didn't notice that. I don't even have ES media, I'm not sure where that's coming from. The repository holds RHEL4AS data laid out per the documentation. I'll double check to make sure it wasn't just a typo on my part, but that is very odd and I don't think that it is. >> The test machine I'm installing on is a Dell PE1650 (tried it with and >> without the Dell partition). You can install RHEL4AS on it fine with the >> CD's, but that's what I'm trying to avoid: >> >> Remote access logs: >> >> [13/Jul/2006:16:47:16 -0400] "GET /./profiles/ks.cfg HTTP/1.0" 200 1246 "-" >> "-" >> [13/Jul/2006:16:47:17 -0400] "GET >> /media/rhel4/RedHat/base/updates.img HTTP/1.0" 404 1045 "-" >> "-" <----missing file, but not on the CD either >I'm pretty sure this is normal and of no consequence. I believe this >was used in the past to allow older boot images to be used to perform >installs/upgrades. Now it seems you must use the matching version.</tt> <tt>After some research it looks like that file may be needed for customized installs, which is not what I'm trying to accomplish (at least not yet). >John </tt> Warren Crigger Sr. UNIX Network Engineer ECommerce Engineering Support Navy Federal Credit Union <tt> _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users </tt>