On 8/13/05, Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com> wrote: > For some reason, CentOS 4.1 waits approximately 3-5 min at the > "Determining host name and domain" during kickstart. RedHat 7.1, > RedHat 9.0, RedHat Enterprise 3.0, and even CentOS 4.0 do not have > this problem using the same kickstart server (my kickstart server is > configured to kick all of them). Does anyone know why CentOS 4.1 is > particularly slow at this stage of kickstart? Likely that you have set obtain IP from dhcp on start and not set a fixed IP. If at that stage it does not get IP allocation (absent dhcpd server or no net) it waits. As I said likely. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux