problem integrating ks.cfg with RHEL WS 2.1 ISOs

[Ajay Mulwani]

Hello,

I have created the two sets of customized ISOs of RHEL
WS 2.1 by doing genhdlist, buildinstall, pkgorder
(optional), splitdistro, genhdlist and mkisofs.

1) The first set has integrated ks.cfg file within
isolinux/initrd.img and also updated
isolinux/isolinux.cfg so that this ks.cfg is called by
default even if just the "Enter" key is pressed at the
"boot:" prompt. The ks.cfg file has ONLY the %post
section which calls a script. With this set the
problem that I am facing is the linux installer does
not gives me an option to select packages and starts
the "minimal" installation always. The installer tries
to perform post-install but the script is not
successfull since "Everything" is not installed. I
don't want to include the %packages section and
specify "@Everything" in the ks.cfg. 

2) To avoid the situation in (1) I created the second
set. Here, I restored the original initrd.img and
isolinux.cfg and now kept ks.cfg at the top level and
at isolinux directory. Now if at the "boot:" prompt I
give "linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg" I am getting the
following error:

"I could not find a Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS CDROM
in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Red Hat
CD and press "OK" to retry"

At this point I am not able to even eject this CD.

If ks.cfg is not specified in the command; the
installation goes absolutely fine but ofcourse the
script which I want to will not execute.

Could any one please suggest what could be wrong here
so that the script should execute once the manual
installation is over.

Regards,
Ajay



		
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