Re: Unable to eject boot cd during kickstart install

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

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.
There's the boot.iso already available, that's what I use. With minor 
surgery it's possible to get a ks file into it and have it used.

As you note, getting it out's the trick.

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John

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