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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">Dear Gurus</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">I need a help here. I have create a RHEL4ASU4 32bit source server and configured dhcp/nfs/kickstart on it. I am also using the initrd.img and vmlinuz from the first CD to pxe boot the destination machines. I use the pxelinux concept of kickstarting. Here is my default file</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">LABEL pxe</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS"> MENU LABEL pxe</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS"> kernel vmlinuz-pxe</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS"> append ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd-pxe.img network ks=nfs:192.168.203.180:/kickstart/rhelas4u4/i386/kickstart.cfg</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">As you see, I am passing the kickstart parameters via additional boot loader parameters. </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">/kickstart/rhelas4u4/i386 contains the entire distribution of RHEL4ASU4</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">Now am using a kickstart configuration file (client's file) wherein he calls many post install and pre install scripts. I get the following error :-</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory : '/tmp/xxxxxx' </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">This directory is mentioned in the %pre script to be created. But looks like it is unable to.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">Before that I get bunch of File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstary.py" , line numbers messages but no errors on that.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">Would appreciate your help and direction regards this</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Trebuchet MS">Thanks</FONT>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">- Abhijit Das</FONT></I>
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