Scratch that! I just found in the manual where it says kickstart is only
good for CDROM or NFS installations. Ugghhh! Sorry.
Stephen Anderson
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, I still cannot get Kickstart to
> function properly. I installed my template machine from an ftp server
> (here in our company). When I try and use the kickstart configuration
> generated, it skips asking me for NFS, HTTP, or FTP and goes straight to
> looking for a SCSI card / local CDROM. If I'm using the kickstart, I can
> find no way to tell it to install from ftp. Can you help me do this?
> Thank you.
>
>
> Stephen Anderson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>
> >
> > Easy! Just install Mandrake as usual, with the "Custom" option, select
> > manually the packages and add the mkkickstart package.
> >
> > After install, login as root and type:
> > mkkickstart >ks.cfg
> >
> > Just edit the ks.cfg to edit the IP address, and copy the file to your
> > bootdisk.
> >
> > You can now install other machines by typing at the boot disk prompt:
> > linux ks=floppy
> > It will parse your ks.cfg file and install automatically.
> >
> > Jean-Michel Dault
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:59:18 -0500 (CDT)
> > > From: Stephen Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [expert] Kickstart?
> > >
> > > Is there an ideal way to create a Kickstart for a Linux Mandrake
> > > installation? I'd love to be able to just walk through the installation
> > > manually once and have it generate a log (the Kickstart instructions)
> > > from my choices in the interactive install. Is anything like this
> > > possible? Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > Stephen Anderson
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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