RE: Kickstart via PXE/NFS

[<secroft micron com>]

Are both NIC's turned on? You May want to turn one off in the bios to bypass the enumeration issue.

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From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of SSTinsley upsfreight com
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:31 AM
To: law redhat com; Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Kickstart via PXE/NFS

kickstart-list-bounces redhat com wrote on 
05/14/2007 11:23:36 AM:

> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:29 -0400, 
SSTinsley upsfreight com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
kickstart-list-bounces redhat com wrote on 05/14/2007 09:53:40 AM:
> > 
> > > Adding ksdevice=xxx to the append line for the boot should 
get rid 
> > > of the interface options. Kickstart doesn't know the 
config until 
> > > after it brings the interface up.
> > 
>  
> > 
> > I am specifying the ksdevice in the 
pxelinux.cfg file. I also set the
> > IPAPPEND 2 option which I 
understood would pass in the IP address of
> > the boot server for use 
as the IP during the  
> > install. 
> How long is the line 
specifying all your options (ks device, ks 
> location, initrd, etc etc? 
 There's a hard limit of 255 characters
> and if you exceed it the 
options are silently truncated which 
> obviously leads to unexpected 
results. 

It is about 120 characters, give 
or take, but nowhere near 255. 


> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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