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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