[ale] running an FC6 Kickstart install?

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 12:41:45 EST 2007


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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"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on
with the prime numbers." --Paul Erd?s
"It's not possible. We are the type of people who have everything in our
favor going against us." --Ben Jarhvi, Short Circuit 2
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