Kickstart/DHCP

[Sean Dilda]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Sam Pottle wrote:

> I have a question about using (Redhat 7.0) Kickstart to do the automagical
> headless install on my compute nodes.  The boxes have two NICs apiece (for
> eventual channelbonding purposes), and when a node kickstarts off the floppy,
> the first thing it does is to ask which device to install from (eth0/eth1),
> at which point the installation stops dead because I'm not there to answer.
> 
> How can I get the installer not to ask this question?  This happens before
> any DHCP request is made, so putting things in the kickstart file (which is
> located on the head node) won't help, as the installer hasn't seen it yet.

The reference manual for Red Hat Linux 7.0 doesn't show anything about
this.  However, the people on kickstart-list at redhat.com might have some
other ideas.


Jag
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