Error Using Auto Install

mail2rajan89 · 06-20-2011, 12:53 AM

Hi All...
I am using Mandriva 2010.2 in my server side and in my client side..... When i try to boot one of my clients through ethernet through server it is working and it is booting... After loading vmlinuz and all.rdz it is indicating an error...

"Error using auto install
Error Reading file auto_inst.cfg.pl."

Below given is the configuration file for pxelinux.cfg/default

# DO NOT EDIT auto_generated by drakpxelinux.pl
PROMPT 1
DEFAULT Mandriva
DISPLAY messages
TIMEOUT 50
F1 help.txt

label local
LOCALBOOT 0

label Mandriva
KERNEL images/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=images/all.rdz automatic=method:nfs,interface:eth0,network:dhcp,server:192.168.1.10,directory:/mnt/Mandriva, ramdisk_size=128000 vga=788 root=/dev/ram3 rw kickstart=images/auto_inst.cfg.pl

When i remove the line/phrase kickstart=images/auto_inst.cfg.pl, my linux is loading successfully from server and we can get the installation steps/procedure manually... But i am trying for an auto install procedure.... Is there any other correction need to be done?

andrewthomas · 06-21-2011, 07:11 PM

At the beginning of your auto_inst.cfg.pl script there should be the following comment

Quote:

#!/usr/bin/perl -cw
#
# You should check the syntax of this file before using it in an auto-install.
# You can do this with 'perl -cw auto_inst.cfg.pl' or by executing this file
# (note the '#!/usr/bin/perl -cw' on the first line).

Have you tried what it suggests?

chrism01 · 06-21-2011, 08:09 PM

FYI, although you can check a .pl with the -c (& w) flags, -c = compile, which happens automatically when it runs, so it's redundant in the hash-bang line.