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class=502522615-20032007>The way kickstart works is that it copies your
kickstart file from the remote location to the local filesystem as /tmp/ks.cfg,
so it sounds like it's not getting your kickstart file. The easiest way to
troubleshoot is to put a sleep statement in your %pre and/or %post, then go to
the Alt-F2 terminal and poke around. You will see your ks.cfg file in /tmp
if it's been copied across, etc.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Abhijit
Das<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
kickstart-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Cc:</B> Abhijit Das<BR><B>Subject:</B> KickStart
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<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>Dear Gurus</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>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 face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>LABEL pxe</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000
size=2> MENU LABEL pxe</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000
size=2> kernel vmlinuz-pxe</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000
size=2> 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 face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>As you see, I am passing the
kickstart parameters via additional boot loader parameters. </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>/kickstart/rhelas4u4/i386 contains the
entire distribution of RHEL4ASU4</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>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 face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>IOError: [Errno 2] No such
file or directory : '/tmp/xxxxxx' </FONT><BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000000 size=2>This directory is mentioned in the %pre script to be
created. But looks like it is unable to.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>Before that I get bunch of
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstary.py" , line numbers messages but no errors on
that.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>Would appreciate your help and
direction regards this</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000000 size=2>Thanks</FONT> <BR><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>- Abhijit Das</FONT></I> </P></BODY></HTML>