Can't find Red Hat 9 cdrom for install

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 BThompson at urhcs.org wrote:

>I have a vendor procedure that I must use to install a software package
>on an HP xw8000, dual Xeon 3.2GHz, DVD+R, nvidia FX1100, 73Gb 15k rpm
>SCSI. Boot order was changed to cdrom first, per instructions. I first
>installed RH9 without the ks.cfg file by mistake.
>
>Then I was told the RH9 automatic install wouldn't use the 2nd
>processor (among other things) without running the kickstart program.

Dubious. anaconda will install the kernel-smp package if it sees
multiple CPUs, or as I recently learned, even if it sees one CPU but
multiple slots.

>I then inserted the cdrom with the kickstart file and rebooted.

How did you add the kickstart file; by rebuilding the ISO? Which
commands? Which kickstart file?

>At the boot prompt, the instructions were to type "expert
>linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg" (without the "", of course).

I don't think "expert" is needed unless extra driver disks are required.

>Everything goes ok, answer "no" to driver disks, country "us"

If you're asked about country (specifically keyboard layout), then the
kickstart file has not been found.

>The documents inside this electronic transmission contain confidential
>information belonging to the sender that is legally privileged.

Really? Not suitable for a public mailing list then :)


Cheers,
Phil