We put our kickstart on an HTTP server and not an FTP server, so we do this:
KS=http://abc.myserver.com/Public/kickstart/ks-linux123.cfg RUNKS=1 Then in the actual kickstart we have this parm to point to the FTP install files: url --url ftp://123.456.789.123/s390x/AS4u6 Maybe you can do it all in one, but just wanted to pass that along. __________________________________ Tom Stewart Infrastructure Analyst John Deere - z/OS Support Services em: stewartthom...@johndeere.com __________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RED HAT 5.2 KICKSTART Hi, We have loaded our initial REHL 5.2 image via FTP without problems. We are now trying to do our initial KICKSTART. We are executing the PARMFILE with the following statements: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000 CMSDASD=191 CMSCONFFILE=RH52.CONF ks=ftp://lftp:pa55w...@10.15.0.107/SPACE/RHEL52/KICKSTART RUNKS=1 cmdline My CONF file looks like this: /* Configuration Information For Autoinstall RH46 */ /* Note: Verify HOSTNAME, IPADDR and DASD fields. */ /* */ HOSTNAME="KICK52.CMS.HHS.GOV" DASD="700,800,801" NETTYPE="qeth" SUBCHANNELS="0.0.8300,0.0.8301,0.0.8302" PORTNAME=" " IPADDR="10.15.49.25" NETWORK="10.15.0.0" NETMASK="255.255.0.0" BROADCAST="10.15.0.255" GATEWAY="10.15.0.254" LAYER2="0" MACADDR=" " SEARCHDNS="cms.hhs.gov" DNS="10.15.0.117" MTU="1500" The problem we are having is that when I try executing the PARMFILE to connect to FTP it looks like it is appending HTTP://FTP <http://ftp/> . So it is never getting to the FTP site that has the KICKSTART. Here is what I see when I execute the Rh52 exec: 16:52:04 INFO : file location: ftp://lftp:pa55w...@10.15.0.107/SPACE/RHEL52/K ICKSTART 16:52:04 INFO : transferring ftp://lftp:pa55w...@10.15.0.107//SPACE/RHEL52/KI CKSTART to a fd 16:52:09 ERROR : cannot determine address family of lftp 16:52:09 ERROR : failed to retrieve http://lftp:pa55w...@10.15.0.107///SPACE/HEL52/KICKSTART Any help would be welcomed. Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 terry.ma...@cms.hhs.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
