Greetings. I think we've straightened out the kinks in our PXE installation for SL 3.0.1. Flushed with success, I figured we might as well move on to SL 3.0.2. We immediately ran into trouble: I couldn't find any kernel or RAM disk for pxeboot in the 3.0.2 tree. In the tree for SL 3.0.1 we had: ----- [root@ucd-host pxeboot]# pwd /SL/3.0.1/images/pxeboot [root@ucd-host pxeboot]# ls README initrd.img vmlinuz [root@ucd-host pxeboot]# cat README The files in this directory are useful for booting a machine via PXE. The following files are available: vmlinuz - the BOOT kernel used for the installer initrd.img - an initrd with support for all install methods and drivers supported for installation of Red Hat Linux ----- On the other hand, here's the situation for 3.0.2: ----- [root@ucd-host 3.0.2]# pwd /SL/3.0.2 [root@ucd-host 3.0.2]# find . -name '*[pP][xX][eE]*' -ls 33813 92 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86079 Jun 2 20:00 ./SL/RPMS/pxe-0.1-36.i386.rpm ----- To construct the /SL/3.0.2 tree I downloaded the four 3.0.2 ISO files from: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/302/iso/i386/ I then mounted each one in turn as a "loop" device: mount -o loop SL.302.062904.i386.disc1.iso /mnt/disk and then just "tarred" the contents to the /SL/3.0.2/ directory: cd /mnt/disk tar xvf - . | (cd /SL/3.0.2; tar xvfp -) I then umounted /mnt/disk, mounted the second ISO, etc. (lather, rinse, repeat). I don't see how this could have missed any files, but if I'm overlooking the obvious, please let me know. I tried to fool the installer by using the PXE kernel and RAM disk from the 3.0.1 distribution. I got only a very short way into the installation before I got the error message: The Scientific Linux installation tree in that directory does not seem to match your boot media. Stupid install trick No. 2: I tried using the kernel and RAM disk from the .../3.0.2/isolinux directory for the PXE boot. That gave a series of obscure (to me) anaconda errors, which I won't bother to duplicate here. What am I missing? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannon mailto:[log in to unmask] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677