<HTML><HTML>Here is a ks.cfg that produces the 295 parse error but does NOT refernce onpart or ondisk. (It is intended to run on a machine with a sda drive that I wish to preserve) and a sdb drive (that is completely unallocated space) and is the drive I wish to install on. As I said above, it fails (as is) but WILL WORK BY ADDING JUST ONE CHAR. That is, comment out with a # char line 25 (logging info) line to have it be parsed correctly and the OS be installed. Now, I have seen this behavior with the orginal F8 pykistart prog (ver. -18-) but not with -19- (until now). I may be wrong, but seems that to reproduce the prob, lines like this fail ONLY in certain cases. If that is the case, this may be corruption in the paring buffer (overflow, for example). I know from my many experiements that commenting out this line is NOT ENOUGH when either "onpart OR odisk" is used. Here is the bad parse ks.cfg # Kickstart file for composing the "Fedora" spin of Fedora 8 #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T # System authorization information auth --useshadow --enablemd5 # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr ignoredisk --drives=sda clearpart --drives=sdb part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sdb part pv.1 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sdb volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=16384 pv.1 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=512 --grow --maxsize=512 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=15000 text # Firewall configuration firewall --enabled # Run the Setup Agent on first boot firstboot --enabled #interactive # System keyboard keyboard us # System language lang en_US # Installation logging level logging info # Use CDROM installation media cdrom #harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/ # Network information network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname floydsmi --onboot=on network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp --hostname floydsmi --onboot=on # Reboot after installation reboot #Root password #rootpw --iscrypted $1$aaaaaa$GXMJ3udCd0ey9r4NUNOsk/ rootpw --iscrypted $1$812aSfDP$n3uhf7d//gw1Lh.cei.ue1 # SELinux configuration selinux --disabled # System timezone timezone America/New_York # Install OS instead of upgrade install # X Window System configuration information #xconfig --defaultdesktop=GNOME --startxonboot xconfig --driver "sis" --defaultdesktop=GNOME --resolution 1024x768 --depth 24 # Package manifest for the compose. Uses repo group metadata to translate groups. # (@base is added by default unless you add --nobase to %packages) %packages # core @core @base-x kernel* # Hardware stuff @hardware-support @dial-up # Desktop Packages @gnome-desktop @kde-desktop echo-icon-theme tracker gnash liferea esc # apps @authoring-and-publishing @eclipse @editors emacs @games @graphical-internet @graphics @java @office @sound-and-video @text-internet @system-tools wireshark-gnome # Devel packages @development-libs @development-tools @gnome-software-development @java-development @kde-software-development @web-development @x-software-development # Server packages @dns-server @ftp-server @mail-server @mysql @network-server @news-server @printing @server-cfg @smb-server @sql-server @web-server --optional # Virt group @virtualization --optional # filesystem stuff reiserfs-utils xfsprogs jfsutils # Languages @filipino-support @tagalog-support # Compose Needs anaconda-runtime iscsi-initiator-utils memtest86+ vnc-server createrepo # This one is already in core 6 Fedora/RPMS dir - no need to copy it to there in mkisofsDVD4.sh # This is needed when comps.xml is chged to update the repository database. glib # This lib is needed by nerolinux. # 3rd party extra (from rpm.pbone.net) # (glib-1.2.10-18.2.2.i386.rpm) needs to be copied to Fedora/RPMS dir from NEWRPMS dir in mkisofsDVD4.sh (when it is in NEWRPMS dir). This is done by run of mkisofsDVD4.sh. It must be added manually to /dosc/d/5/comps.xml before that. gtk+ # This lib is needed by nerolinux. # newrpm (from yum install gtk+) # (gtk+-1.2.10-55.fc6.i386.rpm) needs to be copied to Fedora/RPMS dir from NEWRPMS dir in mkisofsDVD4.sh (when it is in NEWRPMS dir). This is done by run of mkisofsDVD4.sh. It must be added manually to /dosc/d/5/comps.xml before that. nerolinux # newrpm (from nero.com) # (nerolinux-2.1.0.3-x86.rpm) needs to be copied to Fedora/RPMS dir from NEWRPMS dir in mkisofsDVD4.sh. This is done by run of mkisofsDVD4.sh (when it is in NEWRPMS dir). It must be added manually to /dosc/d/5/comps.xml before that. pykickstart # This one is already in Fedora/RPMS dir - no need to copy it to there in mkisofsDVD4.sh # This is needed by GUI kickstart configurator. system-config-kickstart # This one is already in Fedora/RPMS dir - no need to copy it to there in mkisofsDVD4.sh # This is needed by GUI kickstart configurator. unifdef # This one is already in Fedora/RPMS dir - no need to copy it to there in mkisofsDVD4.sh # This is needed to build a redhat kernel src rpm. #yy #yy%post --nochroot #yy #yy# /dosc/cpfiles - cp file(s) for new fedora core install. #yy #yy[ ! -d /mnt/sysimage/dosc ] && mkdir /mnt/sysimage/dosc #yymount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/dosc #yy #yyif [ ! -f /mnt/sysimage/dosc/d/5/zdrivezks.i ]; then #yy ksversion=0 #yyelse #yy ksversion=`cat /mnt/sysimage/dosc/d/5/zdrivezks.i` #yyfi #yyecho "$ksversion" >/mnt/sysimage/dosc/d/5/ksver.i #yyecho "$ksversion" >/mnt/sysimage/ksver.i #yyecho "" >>/mnt/sysimage/dosc/ovdos/oveinfor/ovinfo.i #yyecho "install on zdrivez via kickstart with version ($ksversion) was done on: `date`" >>/mnt/sysimage/dosc/ovdos/oveinfor/ovinfo.i #yyecho "install via kickstart with version ($ksversion) was done on: `date`" >/mnt/sysimage/install.i #yylet "ksversion=ksversion+1" #yyecho -n "$ksversion" >/mnt/sysimage/dosc/d/5/zdrivezks.i #yy #yy/mnt/sysimage/bin/bash -c "/mnt/sysimage/dosc/d/5/ks_post_install_script.sh zdrivez zlabelz" #yy #yyecho "IN KS.CFG - signal /dosc/rclocal to invoke /dosc/ncpfiles the very first time we boot" >/mnt/sysimage/var/doncpfiles.s #yyecho ok9 >/mnt/sysimage/test9K0 #yy #yy%end %end ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)</HTML>