[CentOS] Re: %include command in Kickstart

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 2/16/07, Al Sparks <data345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Al Sparks spake the following on 2/15/2007 6:33 PM:
> >>> Al Sparks spake the following on 2/15/2007 4:44 PM:
> >>>>> One of the images (in Nahant) is to boot off the CD and install
> >>>>> from the network.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That should work BUT I've only used it to get the entire ks file
> >>>>> off the LAN. Booting from a CD is quick and easy (provided you
> >>>>> have a CD drive as in this instance).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Probably the %include will work fairly easily if the original ks file's
> >>>>> obtained via NFS; otherwise I suspect you'll need to do the mount;
> >>>>> in %pre
> >>>> How would I access the whole ks.cfg file on an nfs w/o dhcp?
> >>>>
> >>>> That would be ideal.
> >>>>    === Al
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Assign an ip address during the boot process, and have everything
> >>> referenced by ip address, instead of names.
> >>
> >> At the boot prompt, I did the following:
> >>
> >>    linux ksdevice=eth0 ip=10.254.254.125
> >>    netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.254.254.1
> >>    dns=10.1.1.21 ks=nfs:10.254.242.33:/vol/updts/staging/CentOS_4.3/ks.cfg
> >>
> >> I get a blue screen with
> >>    "Welcome to CentOS-4 i386"
> >> in the left upper corner, with the typical navigation key
> >> instructions at the bottom.  It just hangs there.
> >>
> >> I ping the IP address above, and get no pongs.
> >>
> >> Suggestions?
> >>    === Al
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Dont you also need a
> > method=nfs:nfs:10.254.242.33:/vol/updts/staging/CentOS_4.3/ for
> > anaconda to get loaded?
> > Just a guess as I haven't done any kickstart installs, so no
> > flames if I'm talking out of my you know what!
>
> I'm coming to the conclusion that RH, and by extension, CentOS just won't allow
> you to use a kickstart file over the network w/o DHCP.
>
> I can and have used NFS as long as I place the kickstart file on the CD itself.
>
> That's a pain.

First look at the debugging screens ALT-F3-> ALT-F6. Is the installer
complaining. We mostly use kickstarts via HTTP so I havent tried NFS
in a long while.


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