kickstart from a USB pen / harddrive.

[Fong Vang]

Out of curiosity, which USB device are you using?  I want to find the
most compatible device.  Thanks.

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From: Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com [mailto:Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com]

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:53 AM
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Subject: Re: kickstart from a USB pen / harddrive.





I use the following:   ks=hd:sda1:/ks.cfg



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  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?  ;-)

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Terje


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