[rhn-users] Kickstart Issue - Custom Bootdisk to Network Install

[Warren_Crigger at navyfederal.org]

Thanks in advance for any help!  Sorry in advance too for such a long 
mail, but I hope I provided enough details.

I have been tasked with setting up automated linux installs for our 
company.  This was an easy task for SuSE (even though I like 
RH/Fedora/CentOS better, but I gotta do both =p), but I'm running into 
issues with RHEL4AS.

I do not have the luxury of using DHCP and the normal method of kickstart, 
so I made a custom boot CD with the isolinux directory and TRANS.TBL file 
on it from the actual RHEL4AS disk (that's it!).  I can boot normally and 
from there give it testing kickstart boot options which are:

linux ks=http://<ip>/profiles/ks.cfg ip=<ip> netmask=<netmask> 
gateway=<gateway> ksdevice=eth0

It then loads the kernel, starts to grab files off the remote server (see 
logs below), fires up anaconda, detects the video/mouse/etc, and then 
says:

"you are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this 
release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES"

The test machine I'm installing on is a Dell PE1650 (tried it with and 
without the Dell partition).  You can install RHEL4AS on it fine with the 
CD's, but that's what I'm trying to avoid:

Remote access logs:

 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:16 -0400] "GET /./profiles/ks.cfg HTTP/1.0" 200 1246 
"-" "-"
 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:17 -0400] "GET /media/rhel4/RedHat/base/updates.img 
HTTP/1.0" 404 1045 "-" "-"     <----missing file, but not on the CD either
 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:17 -0400] "GET 
/media/rhel4/disc1/RedHat/base/updates.img HTTP/1.0" 404 1045 "-" "-" 
<----same here
 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:17 -0400] "GET /media/rhel4/RedHat/base/product.img 
HTTP/1.0" 200 1474560 "-" "-"
 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:17 -0400] "GET /media/rhel4/RedHat/base/netstg2.img 
HTTP/1.0" 200 14127104 "-" "-"
 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:35 -0400] "GET /media/rhel4/RedHat/base/hdlist 
HTTP/1.0" 200 54052 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
 [13/Jul/2006:16:47:35 -0400] "GET /media/rhel4/RedHat/base/comps.xml 
HTTP/1.0" 200 2705 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"

Basic Kickstart file to get me started (will need lots of tweaking later):

#Generated by Kickstart Configurator
#Modified by Warren Crigger, NFCU

lang en_SG
langsupport en_US --default=en_SG
keyboard us
mouse
timezone America/New_York
#Initial root password is xxxxxxx
rootpw --iscrypted $1$NxV2o87L$J3f0fDQK7b6yrWyXoNHxQ1
reboot

text
install
url --url http://172.29.212.99/media/rhel4

bootloader --location=mbr 
zerombr yes

clearpart --all --initlabel 
#Disk partitioning information
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 103 --asprimary --ondisk sda 
part /usr --fstype ext3 --size 4096 --ondisk sda 
part /var --fstype ext3 --size 2048 --ondisk sda 
part /home --fstype ext3 --size 1024 --ondisk sda 
part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 1024 --ondisk sda 
part / --fstype ext3 --size 2048 --ondisk sda 

auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5 
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
firewall --disabled 

xconfig --depth=16 --resolution=1024x768 --defaultdesktop=GNOME

%packages --resolvedeps
@ base-x
@ gnome-desktop
@ editors
@ graphical-internet
@ text-internet
@ server-cfg
@ web-server
@ mail-server
@ smb-server
@ sql-server
@ network-server
@ development-tools
@ kernel-development
@ admin-tools
@ system-tools
%post --nochroot 
#!/bin/bash
#Post-install script goes here

Warren Crigger
Sr. UNIX Network Engineer
ECommerce Engineering Support
Navy Federal Credit Union
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