Installation guide

40 Chapter 1. Kickstart Installations
ip-addr -kickstart
The ip-addr section of the filename should be replaced with the client’s IP address in
dotted decimal notation. For example, the filename for a computer with an IP address of
10.10.0.1 would be 10.10.0.1-kickstart.
Note that if you do not specify a server name, then the client system will attempt to use the
server that answered the BOOTP/DHCP request as its NFS server. If you do not specify a
path or filename, the client system will try to mount /kickstart from the BOOTP/DHCP
server, and will try to find the kickstart file using the same ip-addr -kickstart filename
as described above.
1.6. Starting a Kickstart Installation
To begin a kickstart installation, you must boot the system from a Red Hat Linux boot
diskette or the CD-ROM and enter a special boot command at the boot prompt. If the kick-
start file is located on a boot diskette that was created from the boot.img or bootnet.img
image file, the correct boot command would be:
boot: linux ks=floppy
The linux ks=floppy command also works if the ks.cfg file is located on a vfat or ext2
filesystem on a floppy diskette and you boot from the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM.
An alternate boot command for booting off the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM and having the
kickstart file on a vfat or ext2 filesystem on a floppy diskette is:
boot: linux ks=hd:fd0/ks.cfg
If you need to use a driver disk with kickstart, you can still have the kickstart file on a floppy
disk:
boot: linux ks=floppy dd
The Red Hat Linux installation program looks for a kickstart file if the ks command line
argument is passed to the kernel. The command line argument can take a number of forms:
ks=nfs: server :/ path
The installation program will look for the kickstart file on the NFS server server ,
as file
path . The installation program will use DHCP to configure the Ethernet
card. For example, if your NFS server is server.example.com and the kickstart
file is in the NFS share /mydir/ks.cfg, the correct boot command would be
ks=nfs:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg.
ks=http: server :/ path
The installation program will look for the kickstart file on the HTTP server
server , as file path . The installation program will use DHCP to configure
the Ethernet card. For example, if your HTTP server is server.example.com and the
kickstart file is in the HTTP directory /mydir/ks.cfg, the correct boot command
would be ks=http:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg.
ks=floppy
The installation program looks for the file ks.cfg on a vfat or ext2 filesystem on the
floppy in drive /dev/fd0.