Issues w/ a boot cdrom and ks.cfg on floppy - RHEL3

Busch, Jeff jbusch at ebay.com
Tue Aug 31 00:11:04 UTC 2004


This same method worked on another box (different type of hardware though), so I think it's a problem with the box or how the hardware is recognized.

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Busch, Jeff 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:48 PM
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: RE: Issues w/ a boot cdrom and ks.cfg on floppy - RHEL3


I created the file in vi, so I know it's good.  Running dos2unix doesn't change the file (md5sum agrees).  The errors (not sure if they were VT3) mentioned not finding the file, not about formatting.

I did run mdir a: (after proceeding with the install as if there was not a kickstart file) and it saw the file.  I didn't run mtype though.

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Taylor, ForrestX
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:54 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Issues w/ a boot cdrom and ks.cfg on floppy - RHEL3


On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:33, Busch, Jeff wrote:
> My apologies if this has been covered before, but my searches didn't turn up anything.
> 
> I'm trying to kickstart RHEL3 AS.  For various reasons, I'd like to use a boot cdrom with a machine-specific ks.cfg on a floppy drive.  When I do this, I'm getting an error:
> 
>   "Cannot find ks.cfg on boot floppy"

Did you verify that the ks.cfg did not have the extra carriage returns
(^M)?  Run `dos2unix ks.cfg` on the floppy, and see if that helps.  Are
there any errors on VT3?  Once it cannot find the ks.cfg file, can you
mount the floppy and take a look at the ks.cfg?

Forrest


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