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

[Mitch Anderson]

Warren_Crigger at navyfederal.org wrote:
> 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"
>
 From a quick search I did... I could only find information relating to 
it being a missing kernel in your repository(there were a few others 
relating to a missing architecture which the Dell PE1650 should be i686).
 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg08527.html

The link points to older distro's but the reason for the error shouldn't 
be that different...  If this is the first box you've tried off the 
repository, might be worth another look to make sure it has all the 
files off all the cd's and permissions are correct for the webserver.

Hope that helps,
-Mitch