On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 at 12:15pm, Elrako X. Harkonnen wrote > We dont run DHCP in our environment where I build our servers, is it required > to get a first IP address to hit my kickstart server running on my xandros > debian laptop? Just been a couple years since I last did some kickstart > builds and I dont have system-config-kickstart running on a machine here in > my home lab. > > I can turn on DHCP on my linux laptop perhaps, but just wanted to check in > here before I over-engineer something. You can put the initial ip address settings in the anaconda boot line, e.g.: linux ks=http://path/to/your/ks/file/server-and-file ip=$INITIAL_IP_ADDRESS netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=$GATEWAY_ADDRESS dns=$DNS_SERVER_ADDRESS This is documented in /usr/share/doc/anaconda-10.1.1.46/command-line.txt (on my centos-4 system, at least). > I have a line in the kickstart file that gives the machine it's network > addressing like this (fictional IPs): Well, obviously, it can't get the kickstart file from the server without being on the network first. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University