Re: Unable to eject boot cd during kickstart install

[Gary Thomas <gary mlbassoc com>]

Peter Schwenk wrote:
> I, the OP, am in fact doing a network install.  I get the ball rolling 
> with the CD.  I never tried Fedora 7, but Fedoras 6 and prior didn't 
> lock the CD in the drive during the network install.  I am reluctant to 
> start killing processes during the install just so I can remove my CD as 
> dwight at supercomputer.org suggested.  I'm booting from the Rescue CD 
> to do my installs, and one thing I noticed is that a message box pops up 
> indicating that the install found local install media.  This message 
> hadn't appeared with the earlier Fedoras.  I'll try to make a bare-bones 
> boot CD somehow with no install files to see if that helps keep the CD 
> from being locked in.

If you're doing a pure network install, then don't use the rescue disk :-)
Boot from 'boot.iso' (found in the main distribution).  Then you can
select a network install (using kickstart or manually) and the CD can
be ejected once the system starts (it only contains the kernel and initial
ram disk)

> On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:50 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
>
> > dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
> > > It sounds like there's some process left around which is keeping the 
> > > device open. That would be the first thing I'd check. If nothing is 
> > > obvious from a ps(1), then you'll have to dig deeper.
> >
> > I'm going to take this to the Anaconda list, because it illustrates 
> > something that's been on my mind for a while.
> >
> > When I boot CD to net install (which I suppose the OP is doing coz 
> > otherwise it doesn;t make sense to head for other parts, media in 
> > hand), I'd like it to spit the CD out as soon as it's not required.

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