Providing ks.cfg with dhcp

[Kai Blin]

On Friday 30 April 2004 01:13, Joseph Glass wrote:

> I'm trying to provide my ks.cfg over dhcp so I only need to type 'linux
> ks' at the boot prompt.  The dhcpd/kickstart server are on the same
> machine (192.168.0.1.)  dhcp works, as well as kickstart if I run the
> following command manually:
>
> linux ks=nfs:192.168.0.1:/home/kickstart/rh9.cfg
                                                               ^^^^^^^

> In my dhcpd.conf file, I added following line in the subnet {} section:
>
> filename "/home/kickstart/ks.cfg";
                                         ^^^^^^^
is ks.cfg a link to rh9.cfg? Does that file exist at all? 

[...]

> Then it proceeds to look for the kickstart file at
> nfs:192.168.0.1:/kickstart/kickstart-192.168.0.18
>
> Any suggestions?

It looks like that's some built-in default it tries after the dhcp file 
failed. 

-- 
Kai Blin, Sysop
Dept. of Numerical Algebra, University of Tübingen, Germany