Honest Guvnor wrote: Is that _really_ your name? > Many thanks for the input which has got us over the blockage. A node > with a keyboard/screen/mouse attached will now install automatically > apart from a reboot prompt at the end. A node without > keyboard/screen/mouse appears to install from the network/disk > activity but does not come up at the end. But that is tomorrows task. > > Thanks Jan. How to access the errors was big help in telling me what > seemed to be going wrong. Installing http eventually worked but I > think my real problems were with dhcpv6/ipv6 and the server being a > few years old suse flavour of linux with everything disabled. > > Thanks Troy. I like "noipv6" which I think may have been the root > problem but I have yet to establish it. > > Thanks rader. I am not confident about the DHCP settings but tried > many combinations including the ones you suggest. Now things are > working to some extent we will revisit are options and disable as much > as practicable. > > Andy. > Nah, didn't think so, but one can never be certain in these times. I have used etherboot, but I wouldn't if I had a proper boot rom, and it seems every system on the market these days does. PXE is described in the RHEL documentation available from www.redhat.com. I would fully expect KS to work from a SUSE server of any age, though one with DHCP3 is to be preferred. One can do magical things with DHCP3. One also needs a reasonable ftpd, and the one that comes with RHL and its successors is fine, and I think the one SUSE includes is okay. -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Please do not reply off-list