ks.cfg & RedHat tree

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Fred Leeflang wrote:

>Here's for the simple questions I have right now:
>
>- in (ISC) dhcpd.conf, should I just use
>   host <hostname> {
>      hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
>      filename "/kickstart/<hostname>/ks.cfg";
>      next-server 145.92.33.71;
>   } ?

The filename and next-server settings are usually used for PXE - the
location of the kickstart file is passed on the command line by the boot
loader (PXELINUX, ISOLINUX etc.)

>- what is the minimum contents of the ks.cfg that tells it
>   where to find /redhat/ES3.0 ?

nfs --server nfsserver.example.com --dir /redhat/ES3.0 [/RedHat/{base,RPMS}]

>- how do I debug the kickstart process on the client?
>   (ie. make it show which ks.cfg it's trying to get,
>    which NFS folder it's mounting etc.)

Watch the syslog output on the server (/var/log/messages), watch the
virtual consoles of the client (Alt+F2, Alt+F3 etc.)


Cheers,
Phil