can't start with kickstart

[James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]

You're approach is all wrong here.. If you are using blades, you are 
handicapping yourself if you are using a floppy or CD.  You need to learn 
how to use pxelinux, which is part of the syslinux family.  Basically you 
set up a DHCP and tftp server.  When the blades PXE is activated, it grabs 
an IP address and is told to pull a kernel & initrd from the tftp server. 
It is also told where to find a kickstart file.  More information can by 
found on syslinux.zytor.com.

James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/25/2004 12:39:02 PM:

> You can put the ks.cfg on the CD.  Google for tips on how to do this and 
make
> custom RH cds.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Hong Zhu
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:50 AM
> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> > Subject: can't start with kickstart
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > We would like to use kickstart to install RH WS 3 on a blade,
> > which only has one USB port for either CDROM drive or floppy
> > drive but not at same time.
> > 
> > I have the ks.cfg on the floppy diskette, and ok to boot the 
> > blade from RH CDROM to the boot command. How am I able to perform
> > kickstart without cdrom and floppy being available at same time?
> > 
> > BTW, I also tried to store the ks.cfg on the NFS server (NAS),
> > then booted from RH CDROM to boot prompt, and issued:
> > ks=nfs:nfs-server-ip-address:/path/to/ks.cfg
> > 
> > but it just hung. I think it requires the use of DHCP server
> > however we don't have this available for kickstart use, and so 
> > I'm wondering how we're able to perform kickstart without using DHCP.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Hong
> > 
> > 
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