[SOLVED] Network Kickstart FC2 installation on PXE and NFS

[Ken Teh]

I think this is the same problem I encountered months ago.  You need to 
specify the server's hostname, not its ip address.

I discovered the following:  I use boot.iso to boot.  If I do the
installation manually, I can NFS mount my server using its IP address.   So,
I know that NFS works between the server and the client machine.  I boot the
same way but now I tell boot.iso to install via kickstart.  Nothing works.
In fact, the server does not see any NFS mount request.  But, when I changed
the server ip to its dns name in the kickstart file, everything works.

Cheers! Ken



On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Raphaël 'SurcouF' Bordet wrote:

> Raphaël 'SurcouF' Bordet wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I follow your thread: I've do same configuration that yours except I 
> > don't have this options set but nfs server isn't called...
> > 
> > /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > label redhat
> >         KERNEL /rhel3/vmlinuz
> >         APPEND initrd=/rhel3/initrd.img ksdevice=eth0 network \
> > ks=nfs:192.168.0.50:/kickstart/as1bdbi1-ks.cfg
> > __END__
> 
> I've resolved by using http instead of nfs: it's working fine.
> But I don't understand why nfs doesn't work: I can mount installation 
> directory share where's RedHat tree but anaconda can't mount my 
> kickstart share (and I can mount this by hand)...
> 
> label redhat
> 	KERNEL 	/rhel3/vmlinuz
> 	APPEND	initrd=/rhel3/initrd.img ksdevice=eth0 network \
> 		ks=http://192.168.0.50/kickstart/
> 
>