Issue with Aquiring DHCP

[Jeremy Silver]

Joe,

Which version of Red Hat are you using?  I have been kickstarting RH8
systems using e1000 from an RH9 server since last year without going near
anaconda code.  Maybe it's the network I am using, there is just a Netgear
hub between my kickstart/dhcp/tftp server and the servers I am building.

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Robertson
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 02:07 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: RE: Issue with Aquiring DHCP


Andy,

What kind of ethernet NIC do you have? (e1000 driver?)

I've been fighting this problem for quite some time - trying
to get kickstart via NFS to work.

I finally found a solution!!!!

It requires changing anaconda and rebuilding the entire
distribution.  I'll be reporting on this as soon as I
am confident in the accuracy of the method.

Basically it requires checking for failures in such things
as attempting an NFS mount (or in your example getting
a DHCP lease) and trying again (perhaps multiple times) if
the initial attempts fail.

Granted, this seems like a patch but I'm not sure what the 'correct'
solution should be.  It does seem that this is
going to work for me - at least to get kickstart going.

Having said that, there are still failures obtaining the
IP address via PXE during boots subsequent to the install.
I haven't determined what to do to resolve this yet.

Thanks,
Joe


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