Sorry for the delay in response. I was able to carry out a
Kickstart Installation and it went off well. The problem was with
with the nameserver as suggested by Mr Kapil Bhalla.
I configured a bootp server and installed the same.
thanks
Murali
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Kapil Bhalla wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:24:30PM -0500, Murali A J wrote:
> >
> > Hi Friends,
> >
> > I was trying a Kickstart Installation.
> >
> > I am trying to do a NFS installation using kickstart.
> > It enters into the interactive mode everytime.
> >
> > Has anyone faced similar problems or would be able to
> > give me suggestions regarding the same ?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Murali
> >
> > the following is the ks.cfg file used by me
> > I have used proper values for the places where I have used
> > XXX
> >
> >
> > --------------------- ks.cfg -----------------------------------
> > lang en_US
> > network --bootproto static --ip XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --netmask 255.255.255.0
> > --gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> > nfs --server XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --dir /mnt/cdrom
>
> If it enters interactive mode for hostname check that the nameserver is
> able to resolve the ip assigned for you.
>
> Kapil Bhalla
>
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