RE: 7.1 nfs install requires DHCP? || ahhh, follow up an answer f or you ?

[Carl Riches <riches ms washington edu>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:

> > So it is confirmed that a DHCP server is required for an NFS kickstart
> > installation of 7.1 ?  This is not the case for 7.2
> >

This is not confirmed for RH7.1.  I have done many kickstart installations
using NFS.  Here is part of the header from one of my ks.cfg files (fake
IP addresses...):

# I N S T A L L A T I O N   M E T H O D
nfs --server 111.222.333.444 --dir /RedHat/7.1/OS_CD

# L A N G U A G E   S P E C I F I C A T I O N
lang en_US

# N E T W O R K   C O N F I G U R A T I O N
network --bootproto static --ip 111.222.333.555 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 111.222.333.100 --nameserver 111.222.333.444 --hostname my.linux.desktop.box

# D E V I C E   S P E C I F I C A T I O N
device ethernet 3c59x

I put this file onto a RH7.1 boot floppy, then issue "linux ks=floppy"
after the floppy boots.  I've done about 20 machines this way.

Carl G. Riches
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> >
> > -> > in the ks
> > -> > bootproto --static ya,da,ya,da,ya,da ip/namserver/gateway
> > -> >
> > -> > and an install method of ks=nfs:<server:>/<path>
> > -> >
> > -> > yours a.r.b.
> > -> >
> > -> > think this works, had a variant a while a go.
> > ->
> > -> This will work for a static IP post-install, but you still
> > -> have to use DHCP
> > -> in the beginning...
> > ->
> > -> Forrest
>
> I'm glad that they finally fixed that.  I haven't tried RH 7.2 kickstart w/o
> DHCP, yet, so I'll have to give it a whirl...  How did you setup the static
> IP?
>
> Forrest
>
>
>
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