Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Yes. DHCP is the successor to BOOTP that offers a superset of its functionality. But in the original BOOTP functionality, you would pass the filename the BOOTP client would retrieve from a TFTP server so it could boot. The file was then booted.
This is how we have been installing workstations/servers in the UNIX world for 2+ _decades_ -- BOOTP+TFTP (plus, typically, an NFS mount). The PC only adopted it in more recent years.
E.g., Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) sets up the same thing (although uses a SMB mount after the BOOTP+TFTP).
Thanks.
So I guess I should take this as:-
No, it is not possible just to put the ks file onto an FTP server along with the install file. I have to have a proper DHCP server and TFTP.
Nope, it's not true. I have ftp server, and in root directory I have all ks files for my servers. It is the same ftp server that servers as repository for ks instalations (every distribution has it's own subfolder). All i have to do is boot server from instalation CD, on boot prompt enter:
linux ..ks=ftp://192.168.10.10/ks.cfg ....
and in ks.cfg there is something like (i type this from head, search for exact line):
url ftp://192.168.10.10/distrib1
and that's it