Problem with reading ks.cfg from the cdrom

[Stephen Mah]

Never used the cdrom option.
I use this:
  append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 vga=788 
ks=file:/tmp/ks.cfg

then I put the kickstart file in the initrd.img file system, which is on 
the cdrom when I make it bootable.

cd isolinux
gunzip -c initrd.img >initrd.img.unzip
mkdir -p loop
mount -o loop initrd.img.unzip loop/
cp ks.cfg ./loop/tmp/
umount loop/
gzip -9 -c initrd.img.unzip > initrd.img
rm -rf initrd.img.unzip

then use mkisofs to create your cdrom.

Avrahami David wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie to kickstart and I am trying to install RHEL 3.0 by 
> kickstart procedure from the cdrom.
> I did as following:
>
> 1) I prepared a bootable cdrom  
> (_http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-CD_ 
> )and put the ks.cfg 
>
> on top-level directory 
> (_http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-putkickstarthere.html_ 
> ).
>
> Then I boot from cdrom and type on boot: linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg
> In this stage I got the installation menus which says that kickstart 
> fails to read/find the ks.cfg.
> It seems that ks.cfg somehow can't be read.
> the ALT+F4 says: unable to identify cd-rom format
> the ALT+F3says: failed to mount /dev/hdd invalid argument trying to 
> mount device hdd
>
> There is no such problem if I put the same ks.cfg on floppy and boot 
> from cdrom and type boot: linux ks=floppy
> Any clue?
>
> David
>
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