> Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: >> We have CentOS 6 manual installation working by PXE booting from a RHEL5.6 >> PXE/TFTP server. However, when we add a Kickstart file in the PXE >> configuration: >> >> kernel CentOS-6-i386/vmlinuz >> append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network >> ks=nfs:130.226.86.4:/u/rpm/kickstart/ks-centos-6-clean-i386.cfg >> >> then the CentOS 6 client install reports "Unable to download the kickstart >> file". >> The console 3 reports "failed to mount nfs source". >> We believe the NFS server is OK because we can install CentOS5 clients in >> this way. > <snip> >> However, on the centos list I see some people who apparently go Kickstart >> to work with CentOS 6 - but how did they do it? >> >> Question: What special configuration is required for either 1) PXE or >> 2) the DHCP server? > > I just cloned the 5.6 install, and it worked. > > Well, kinda. You may have seen, or missed, the thread a couple weeks ago, > about this: we do have a local repository, and comps.xml was missing. > Then, having now switched to my new workstation, I found that window > manager names changes (like KDE and Gnome), so they weren't installed, and > for some reason, xorg was not a prerequisite. OO.o, btw, has had a group > name change as well. I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS problem. We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE. It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which fails. What I'd love to learn is how others have made NFS/Kickstart work... /Ole