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