Kickstart NFS installations

[Lonnie Baldwin]

The problem might be the result of you copying all 5 cd's to your network
share.  The RedHat CD1 and CD5 contain a folder called redhat/base which do
not contain the same files, specifically base\Comps.xml.

I noticed that even after doing an http install that the process would still
fail.  looking at http logs and comparing the last file accessed (comps.xml)
to the file on cd1 showed that they were different.  After copying the files
from cd1 to the base directory i was successful in installing RedHat.

I asked support to update their knowledge base but obviously that hasn't
done.  thanks


On 6/13/06, Jason Nemecek <jnemecek at sandisk.com> wrote:
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>   On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:04 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
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> > > "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this
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> > > release of RedHat Linux WS"
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> > That smels like it's not seeing the RPMs.  I strongly suspect that using
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> > the IP address instead of the host name will solve this.
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> Nope. No difference when I use the IP address. It sees the ks.cfg file on the server and uses it for answers to lang, langsupport, keyboard, mouse, timezone, root PW, etc…  so in theory it **should** still be able to find the same server for RPMs. In any case, I tried it with IP only to take DNS out of the equation and got the same "isn't supported" message.
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> > > Is there any method that one could automate 50 workstation installs
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> > > using RHEL4 WS ?
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> > Cloning the disk using Ghost or something like it would be far faster
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> > than a kickstart/NFS install.  Install one machine.  At the end,
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> > DON'T let it restart.  Just shut down.  Pop in a drive from one of the
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> > other machines (re-address it first), then use Ghost to clone the disk.
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> > Address the drive back to its original setting and put it back in the
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> > new machine.  When it boots, you'll go through the initial set-up
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> > ("firstboot") stuff.
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> Do you know of any non-windows solutions? It's funny that Redhat provides this great network install tool but it doesn't work, or even give a sane error message. Since I bought the machines preloaded from Dell, Redhat won't provide any support at all. Nice.
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> Thanks for your answers.
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> *Jason
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