[ale] running an FC6 Kickstart install?

[Brian MacLeod]

Warren,

While your ks.cfg file may be available for view to all network
viewers, is it possible that the machine you are installing isn't able
to get to the network at that point?

If you have multiple network interfaces on the machine, you may need
to specify which one should be chasing your ks.cfg:

ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp

It's also possible that the module you need to drive the network card
is not in the installer's initrd image.  That would prevent it from
seeing the card.   Try switching over to another VT during the
standard install, and checking to see  if it is loading the
appropriate module or not.

bnm



On 1/3/07, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can view the ks.cfg file with my browser - so I know it's available. I
> also know that the machine is getting an IP address, so finding the server
> shouldn't be hard.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is that the tool made something that
> won't work correctly. :-/
>
> WMM
>
>
> On 1/3/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:54 -0500, Warren Myers wrote:
> > > Good morning.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get a kickstart config file sitting on my web server (or
> > > nfs) to actually install under FC6. So far I have the
> > > configurator-generated .cfg sitting in my home directory. However,
> > > when booting off the DVD and using the 'linux ks=
> > > http://server/path/ks.cfg' boot parameters, Anaconda repeatedly tries
> > > to just do a default install from the DVD.
> > >
> > > Obviously, this is quite irritating, as the Kickstart tool is
> > > theoretically supposed to handle 'hands-off' installations.
> > >
> > > Any ideas as to what might be causing this, or what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > The format looks correct to me. Verify you can get the ks.cfg file with
> > another system and make sure the line is exactly
> >
> > linux ks=http://server/path/ks.cfg
> >
> > with no extra spaces between anything.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Warren
> > >
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