kickstart problems

Bret Hughes bhughes at elevating.com
Fri Nov 21 01:18:57 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 18:18, David S. Johnson wrote:
> Andy Elmer wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone else had success using kickstart via NFS with Fedora?  I am
> >doing everything the same way I always have with RH 7.3, 8, and 9.  Has
> >the ks.cfg format changed?
> ><snip>
> >
> Yes, I have installed Fedora via NFS, both kickstart and interactive. 
>  The procedure is no different, but due to a number of things which were 
> different in the Fedora kickstart files, I found I had to go through an 
> interactive install first, to get a base kickstart file to work from. 
>  Subsequent minor modifications (adding/omitting packages) caused no 
> problems, and I was able to do kickstart-driven installs via NFS.
> 

Just curious.  What do you have to add to the kernel command line to
tell the installer to look to dhcp for the ks.cfg?  I have always let
the nfs server serve the ks.cfg with an
append="ks=nfs:serverip:/path/to/ks.cfg" line 

Bret





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