Network Kickstart FC2 installation on PXE and NFS

[Ajay Mulwani]

What Phil has mentioned here is NOT the nfs server where you have dumped
the entire linux but the one where ks.cfg is kept. While doing
interactive install you specify nfs server path to Linux dump and not to
the ks.cfg.

Now to resolve this either copy your ks.cfg somewhere within the Linux
path and specify that path to the "ks" option or make sure that
192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2 is exported (or shared).

-Ajay



-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of flw
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:36 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re:Network Kickstart FC2 installation on PXE and NFS


> Dear All,
>
> I tried to set-up a kickstart installation through PXE and NFS.
>
> On the server I have setup the DHCP, TFTP and NFS.
>
> On dhcpd.conf I have set the :
> next-server 192.168.20.100 (the dhcp, tftpd and nfs server).
> filename "pxelinux.0"
>
> On the /tftpboot, I moved the /tftpboot/linux-install content to 
> /tftpboot basically the moved file is pxelinux.0 and the pxelinux.cfg 
> directory.
>
> I have placed on the /tftpboot the vmlinuz and initrd.img from FC2 CD 
> No1  (/images/pxeboot/*) .
>
> To test the system I am putting this in the 
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
>
> label install
> KERNEL vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=initrd.img
> IPAPPEND 1
>
> With this configuration, the client is booting OK, pick up the dynamic

> IP address from DHCP, start the vmlinuz and initrd.img, start the text

> based installation from /sbin/loader OK.
> Then I choose to get the install tree from NFS server 192.168.20.100 
> with directory /tftpdboot/fc2.  The installation then goes to windows 
> interactive mode, and I can install FC2 till its completion OK.
>
> Now I want to use the Kickstart, so I changed the 
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to this:
>
> label install
> KERNEL vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=initrd.img ks=nfs:192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2/ks.cfg
> IPAPPEND 1
>
> I generate the ks.cfg using the GUI Kickstart configurator.
>
> With this configuration during startup, the client load vmlinuz and 
> initrd.img OK.
> then it goes to /sbin/loader and stops there.
>
> On the server I could not see that the NFS request ever being made by 
> the client.
>
> I have put different flags like netowork ksdevice, etd on the 
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to no avail.
>
> Can anybody help please.
> Do I need to create a specific initrd.img with NFS enable?  If yes how

> do I do it.  Thanks.
>
>
> FL. Wahidin
>
>No NFS server? You've instructed Kickstart to fetch its config file fro

>"ks=nfs:192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2/ks.cfg", specifying an "nfs" 
>server (the other [network] option is http).
>
>To quickly setup NFS, try this:
>1. Add a line "/tftpboot	*(ro,async)" to /etc/exports
>2. Start up the "portmap", "nfslock", and "nfs" services in order (e.g.
>"service portmap start"), if they're not already running.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Phil
>  
>
Thanks,

The NFS server works OK, because if I go to the interactive mode, (ie. 
specifying
label install
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.img
    IPAPPEND 1 )
and specify exactly the same server address and mounting directory
during the installation, the installation will proceed by mounting the
NFS path fine without problem.

I have noticed from the /var/log/messages, that when using the nfs
kickstart configuration( ie. specifying
    label install
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.img ks=nfs:192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2/ks.cfg
    IPAPPEND 1 )
the NFS request was never being attempted by the client at all.

I have also tryed by specifying
APPEND   ksdevice=eth0 initrd=initrd.img 
ks=nfs:192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2/ks.cfg
or
APPEND   ksdevice=eth0 initrd=initrd.img network 
ks=nfs:192.168.20.100:/tftpboot/fc2/ks.cfg

And the NFS mount is still never being attempted at all.

Regards,

FLWahidin

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