can't start with kickstart

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 06:49, Hong Zhu wrote:
> 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.

Create a new disc1 by copying the contents to a directory and adding
your ks.cfg.  Use mkisofs to create an iso and burn it.  Your new ks
line would be something like this:

ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg

Forrest