Bug 680178 - installguide, making ks-file available states dhcpd.conf should be modified
Summary: installguide, making ks-file available states dhcpd.conf should be modified
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Installation_Guide
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ruediger Landmann
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-24 15:09 UTC by Christian Horn
Modified: 2018-11-14 15:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 6.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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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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.

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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.


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