kickstart from a USB pen / harddrive.
Terje Kvernes
terjekv at math.uio.no
Wed Aug 25 09:16:21 UTC 2004
howdy all.
since cdroms are annoying to add kickstart files to, and floppies
being, well floppies, we've decided to look at using USB pens to
store kickstart files here at the department. before anyone says
"PXE!", let's just say that we've been there, done that and for
several reasons want something else.
now, I've managed to get RHEL 3.0 WS to boot from the pen, and
everything works rather well. the problem comes with finding the
darn kickstart file. now, we get the pen as /dev/sda1 according to
the logs, which is fine, but anaconda doesn't seem to want to find
the kickstart file on /dev/sda1. I've tried ks=/dev/sda1/ks.cfg and
ks=/dev/sda1:/ks.cfg as best guesses, after the cdrom:/ks.cfg-model,
but this doesn't seem to work. I've also tried ks=/ks/ks.cfg, but
the all lead to the same error:
"Error opening kickstart file (null): Bad address"
now, I'm more than willing to modify the appropriate bit in anaconda
or whatever to get /dev/sda1 mounted somewhere so that the kickstart
files can be found, but I can't seem to find the appropriate image
to edit. help? ;-)
--
Terje
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