replacing the kernel used for kickstart.
Brad Doctor
bdoctor at ps-ax.com
Fri Sep 17 14:38:56 UTC 2004
See product.py, specifically 'productPath', which defines where to look on the
cd:
productPath = "Fedora"
This is part of the stage2 installer.
-brad
> Terje Kvernes <terjekv at math.uio.no> writes:
>
> > Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> writes:
> >
> > > I was able to install FC2+updates on a machine using the FC3T1
> > > vmlinuz and initrd.img (because the FC2 ones wouldn't boot on that
> > > hardware). I don't know if you could install RHEL3 the same way but
> > > it's easy to try and if it works it would save you some time.
> >
> > hm, just replace the initrd and the vmlinuz on the RHEL-installation
> > with those from FC. interesting idea, I'm just curious on how
> > schizophrenic the box will be with afterwards, but it _will_ grab
> > packages from the URL we've given, and that's a RHEL-mirror. heh.
> > okay, I'll try on a box here. thanks.
>
> heh. that went pretty much as expected. everything boots, and is
> happy, but then we expect to find a Fedora-directory to use for http
> install. symlinking that to the RHEL directory (hey, it didn't cost
> anything to test) gives the classical "your installation media
> doesn't match the stuff I found" error. sanity checks and all that.
>
> so, back to the drawing board.
>
> --
> Terje
>
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