<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>RedHat Linux KickStart HOWTO: Prerequisites</TITLE> <LINK HREF="KickStart-HOWTO-5.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="KickStart-HOWTO-3.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="KickStart-HOWTO.html#toc4" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="KickStart-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="KickStart-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="KickStart-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s4">4. Prerequisites</A></H2> <P> <P>There are two approaches to a KickStart install - one is to simply copy your KickStart configuration file to a RedHat boot floppy. The other is to use a regular boot floppy and get your KickStart config file off the network. <P> <P>In both cases, you'll need: <P> <OL> <LI> Intel (i386) class machines - KickStart appears to only work on these at the time of writing.</LI> <LI> KickStart config file - we'll talk about this in the next section.</LI> <LI> RedHat boot disk - preferably from the <EM>updates</EM> directory, to take advantage of any fixes/driver updates.</LI> <LI> DNS entries for the IP addresses you'll be using - optional, but will stop the installation from prompting you for your machine's domain name.</LI> </OL> <P> <P>If you want to fetch your config file over the network, you'll need to export it via NFS - this is the only access method supported at the moment. The config file lets you specify a different NFS server to fetch the RedHat distribution itself from. <P> <P>You can configure a static IP address for your machine - e.g. a special one reserved for KickStart installations. Alternatively, if you don't want to hard code an IP address in the config file you can tell KickStart to use a BOOTP/DHCP server to fetch this. Some servers will allocate new addresses in a given range automatically, e.g. <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ntplx.net/pub/networking/bootp">the CMU BOOTP server with dynamic addressing extensions</A>. <P> <P>More information on NFS and BOOTP/DHCP is in Appendix A. <P> <P> <P> <HR> <A HREF="KickStart-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="KickStart-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="KickStart-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
