Kickstart and DHCP

[Langdon Stevenson]

Gary Schlachter wrote:
> I have a PXE boot setup trying to install FC7.  After the PXE boot and 
> the vmlinuz and initrd.img are loaded, I am attempting to load FC7 via 
> NFS from kickstart.  My kickstart file is loaded but when the server 
> attempts to acquire an IP address via DHCP before NFS mounted the drive, 
> it times out after multiple DHCP requests.  Using ethereal, it appears 
> the DHCP server is responding correctly with the same IP address the PXE 
> server gave previously.  For some currently unknown reason, the DHCP 
> response is ignored.  Any ideas on why this would happen?


Gary, I have never been able to get network installs to work unless I 
specify a static IP.  I had the same problems as you describe with DCHP 
assigned IPs.  In the end I went with static and the problem evaporated.

Regards,
Langdon