Kickstarting FC2 installs

[MW Mike Weiner (5028)]

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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Philip Rowlands
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:29 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Kickstarting FC2 installs

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:

>Is it possible to do what I am trying (eg create a ks bootdisk and do 
>an nfs install of fc2)? Everything I have read leads me to believe it 
>can. So my question is, why am I seeing two different behaviors? The 
>only REAL difference is via PXE I load the vmlinuz and initrd.img from 
>the FC2/images/pxeboot tree rather than using say bootimg and dd to 
>create a boot disk. Would this cause this type of behavior? I tried to 
>get those two files onto my boot disk but alas they are too large for a

>1.44M floppy.

Erm, which files *did* fit? You'd need both vmlinuz and initrd to get
the network drivers, without which you'd see, well, the issues you're
having.

You'd have to jump through a painful number of hoops to get working
floppy bootdisk with FC2. Is CD-ROM an option?
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Ya, unfortunately a CD ks boot disk is required. The initrd and vmlinuz
alone are well over the size of the floppy, plus, it seems that if you
use a boot disk it wont find the ks.cfg file if provided over a network,
as the network hasn't been loaded yet and this will fail. At least from
what I am seeing, and a number of resources I have read.

So to that end, unfortunately, I will burn to a miniCD and go that
route, but what a waste.

Thanks for the response
Michael Weiner