Kickstart installation

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:39, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 11:44, Mark wrote:
> > > ks=http:192.168.1.29:/download/ks/lvd2.ks.cfg
> > > ks=http://$ADRESS
> > > 
> > > > Is this the right syntax? How can I fix the error?
> > > You should not forget the two slashes after the colon.
> > > 
> > Thanks for the response!
> > 
> > The website I found it on had left the slashes out and and also had colons
> > between server name and path - kind of like the location syntax scp uses as
> > well. Anyway - guess they were wrong...
> > This way it works:
> > ip=192.168.1.17:::::eth0 ks=http://192.168.1.29/download/ks/lvd2.ks.cfg
> > 
> > It still asks me for the network configuration though, is there a way to
> > make it pick it up from the "ip=..." parameter?
> > 
> > After entering the network parameters, it starts reading the kickstart file
> > from the server - I can see the requests in the access log.
> > Then I get the error message "Unable to retrieve
> > http://192.168.1.29//fedora/base/Fedora/base/stage2.img."
> 
> You didn't get the network setup, so it couldn't find the stage2.img. 
> Look in /usr/share/doc/anaconda-10.0/command-line.txt for references to
> command-line options.  You shouldn't have the :::::eth0.  Try something
> like this:
> 
> ip=192.168.1.17 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns=192.168.1.1 ks=http://...

Oops, forgot 'ksdevice eth0' on that line as well.

Forrest