can't start with kickstart
Joe Robertson
jrobertson at convera.com
Wed May 26 06:45:24 UTC 2004
James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov said:
> 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.
<snip>
I agree with James about using PXE. I just hope you don't have the
problem of having one of the Gigabit NIC's that inhibit your use of
kickstart via network. The e1000 drivers have this problem - depending
on the switch you connect it to.
Joe Robertson
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