Bug 680178

Summary:	installguide, making ks-file available states dhcpd.conf should be modified
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Christian Horn <chorn>
Component:	doc-Installation_Guide	Assignee:	Ruediger Landmann <rlandman>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Version:	6.0	CC:	jwest, pkennedy
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Description Christian Horn 2011-02-24 15:09:03 UTC

Description of problem:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-kickstart2-networkbased.html
states dhcpd.conf should be modified, 'filename' should be set to a path where later a kickstart-file gets fetched. 
Variable usually contains pxelinux.0 or another netbootloader. The kickstart-url can be supplied via kernel option to the booted kernel.


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How reproducible:
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Actual results:
If dhcpd.conf is modified as suggested no netloader is fetched, pxe cannot be performed.

Expected results:
Doc could guide to supply kickstart-url via kernel option.
Or maybe 'filename' in dhcpd.conf could indeed be used, but that deployment wouldnt be pxe-started using the same dhcp-server-configuration.

Additional info:

Comment 6 Ruediger Landmann 2011-03-21 15:05:39 UTC

Thanks Christian; 

Section rewritten along the lines you suggest in build 1.0-19 of the Installation Guide.

Note to QE:new material starts at "Include the ks kernel boot option in the append line of a target in your pxelinux.cfg/default file to specify the location of a kickstart file on your network." and continues to the end of the subsection.