Re: Problem with NFS kickstart install, booting off of cdrom

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 20:40, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a 7.2 kickstart so I can install several dozen VA 
> 1220 (1U) servers.. and if you're familiar with these
> servers, you'll know they have no floppy.  My thought was to just use 
> the normal redhat 7.2 disc 1 as a boot image,
> then run linux ks and retrieve the ks.cfg file from dhcp, which it does 
> fine.  My problem is, even though I have
> a line that says
> nfs --server=IP_ADDR --dir=/export/RedHat
> 
> The server, after retrieving the ks.cfg, tries to install from the cdrom 
> as the source instead of the nfs server,
> which renders the whole process useless.  Any thoughts here? Is this a 
> limitation with kickstart, or is this
> something I'm doing wrong?

Last I checked the rh cdroms don't have network capabilities.

what type of nics do they have? If they have bootproms and support pxe
booting I'd suggest getting them from there.

-sv