Issues w/ Kickstart & building custom DVD
Philip Prindeville
philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Fri May 5 23:16:06 UTC 2006
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I'm trying to build an installer DVD, and I'm running into some
> issues. This
> is for FC5 on an HP n6000.
>
> * changing the default timeout behavior for the loader, so that it's
> "linux ks=..."
> instead of just "linux".
Ok, figured this out... It was in isolinux/isolinux.cfg ... but the
Kickstart
documentation still isn't very clear about the values of "ks=cdrom" or
"ks=harddisk"
(or whatever)... i.e. WHERE on the respective medias the file is
expected to be.
Is it in the root directory for a cdrom? Is it in /tmp/ for the harddisk?
>
> * figuring out where a good place to put the ks.cfg file would be (on
> the CD-ROM
> root, or in the ramdisk image root?)
>
> * figuring out all of the options... I'm getting anaconda messages
> that "mouse" and
> "langsupport" are deprecated...
Seeing messages about finding the USB mouse, but "failed to loading
mousedev driver"
(or some such message).
>
> * and finally Anaconda is blowing out, saying it didn't like might
> ks.cfg file, but
> instead of a line number, it gives %s... grrr...
Is there an easy way to debug this? Because it's blowing out, and I
sure can't
tell where along the way it is... especially since the box reboots
before I have
much of a chance to delve into things and figure out how far along it got.
I'll publish whatever scripts, etc. I come up with once I have things
working.
BTW: if anyone has a link for a Kickstart mailing list or IRC forum, that
would be handy too...
-Philip
>
> Any clues on where documentation for FC5 can be found? I've only
> found it for
> RH9...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
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