Redhat installation over nfs

[liquorice15]

Hi all

I have multiple servers to build and am trying to find an easy way to do it. 

I have tested with NFS and I can successfully build from my NFS server but I have to give the new server an IP before it will work (I know the new server needs some network connection to see the NFS server) so I don't see the advantage in using a NFS server in this instance. Do I need to have a DHCP server running on my NFS server to make this all work? 

I have read the documentation from Red Hat but I still can't figure out how it all hangs together.

I always want to call a kickstart file but when I add it to the boot menu using inst.ks it just hangs the installation.

Is there a dummy's guide to the NFS/kickstart process?

Thanks Fred

[Trevor]

Hello Fred,

Are you still in need of assistance with this matter?

[Jeff_doug1]

Hello Trevor,  

I'm trying to do something similar with RHEL workstations. I have a large number of workstations that I would like to deploy using kickstart so that all systems are configured the same way.  

I would appreciate any information you can provide on this subject. I'm pulling my hair out trying to understand the kickstart process and how it works with NFS.

I think the documents are really confusing on what to do with the ks.cfg file and how the actual install works. RHEL has provided a cool kickstart generator that will create your kickstart file for you, but then they don't tell you what to do with the ks.cfg file after it's created. 

Do I create an .iso of that file and then copy it to disc?  Do I extract the RHEL OS.iso or should I just copy it to the NFS location? I would like to boot a DVD that then reaches out to an NFS location to complete the RHEL OS install.  

Here is the document I've been reading through. 

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/automatically_installing_rh...