Re: server migration with gPXE

>Thanks for the quick response, but i am still not clear on how I am getting
>an ip address on the server after reboot, you mean the ks=http://x.x.x.x line
>is going to be applied to my server? or do I need to have a kickstart server on
>my network and that line points to it?

A "kickstart server " is really glorified speak, a host with an http server would
suffice. Have a read on the rhel docs about ks installations:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html

A working example I last used was:

title CentOS Anaconda Install
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 ks=http://host.domain.com/foo.cfg vnc vncpassword=SuperSecret
        initrd /initrd.img

By now you should have the hang of it, you specify the ip and many other params
for that matter on the kernel line...

Once the kernel and initrd are loaded into memory, you can actually wipe
and reconfigure the block devices so there really is no limitation to what
can be in the ks file.

Good luck,
jlc

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