Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > GC, what do you say? > > > "Conrad Lawes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > ================================== > I'm trying to deploy Mandrake over the network by creating an Etherboot > image from the Mandrake network boot floppy using mknbi-dos. My ultimate > plan is the ability to automate the deployment of Mandrake via PXE or > Etherboot. This will eliminate the need for a network boot floppy. > Unfortunately, the process fails when linux script attempts to mount the > floppy drive to access the auto_inst.cfg file. > > I am sure that I could modify syslinux.cfg to get the auto_inst.cfg > file > from an NFS-mounted directory. For instance, instead of having append > kickstart=floppy > I wish to have: > append kickstart=nfs:servername:/ks/auto_inst.cfg > > Red Hat offers this flexibility in Kickstart and I was wondering if > Mandrake > offers a similar option. > > TIA.
Hi, We already did that for a customer (that was actually a very small part of the project). What you need to do is to edit syslinux.cfg to have kickstart=Mandrake/base/some_dir/auto_inst.cfg.pl We used NFS install, and added a choice of dirs in /Mandrake/base/ with different boot images on the PXE boot server to allow different types of auto installs. It works very well, and our customer has now a Mandrake-o-matic tool to roll out Mandrake Linux all over his company. also check: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/pxe/index.html -- Sylvestre Taburet - Mandrakesoft, Paris. "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - K. Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989.
