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

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On 7/13/06, Warren_Crigger at navyfederal.org
<Warren_Crigger at navyfederal.org> wrote:
>
> 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"

Odd that we switched from AS to ES here. What is in the remote tree?
Can you install from the network installation tree interactively? I
don't recall the error you get when trying to install from a tree that
doesn't match the boot image used ... but make sure there isn't a
mismatch there.

> 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

I'm pretty sure this is normal and of no consequence. I believe this
was used in the past to allow older boot images to be used to perform
installs/upgrades. Now it seems you must use the matching version.

John