From binand at gmail.com Sun Oct 1 18:51:59 2006 From: binand at gmail.com (Binand Sethumadhavan) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:51:59 +0200 Subject: /etc/shadow Message-ID: OK, this is stumping me. Where does /etc/shadow get created? I can see that the setup package includes /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow as %ghost, so when are these files created during install? I am having trouble with a custom install in which /etc/shadow is missing. I'm trying to see why by comparing with a working system. TIA, Binand From Zack.Bartel at Tectura.com Mon Oct 2 14:45:25 2006 From: Zack.Bartel at Tectura.com (Bartel, Zack) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:45:25 -0700 Subject: /etc/shadow Message-ID: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F4@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> Hi Binard, I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves are in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig package that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me if you'd like some more information. Zack Bartel Tectura Tel: 425-957-4237 -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 11:52 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: /etc/shadow OK, this is stumping me. Where does /etc/shadow get created? I can see that the setup package includes /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow as %ghost, so when are these files created during install? I am having trouble with a custom install in which /etc/shadow is missing. I'm trying to see why by comparing with a working system. TIA, Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From jjensen at cisco.com Mon Oct 2 17:34:53 2006 From: jjensen at cisco.com (Joshua Jensen) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:34:53 -0400 Subject: /etc/shadow In-Reply-To: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F4@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> References: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F4@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> Message-ID: <20061002173453.GF16882@cisco.com> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:45:25AM -0700, Bartel, Zack wrote: > Hi Binard, > > I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves are > in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig package > that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me if you'd like > some more information. I 2nd this. Are you installing with "%packages --nobase" ? Anaconda needs authconfig to create /etc/shadow. Future versions of anaconda will force install authconfig, regardless package selection. For now, just make sure authconfig gets installed. Joshua > > > > Zack Bartel > Tectura > Tel: 425-957-4237 > > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Binand > Sethumadhavan > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 11:52 AM > To: kickstart-list at redhat.com > Subject: /etc/shadow > > OK, this is stumping me. > > Where does /etc/shadow get created? I can see that the setup package > includes /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow as %ghost, so when are these > files created during install? > > I am having trouble with a custom install in which /etc/shadow is > missing. I'm trying to see why by comparing with a working system. > > TIA, > > Binand > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- Joshua Jensen Work: 919 392 1488 Mobile: 919 454 9679 Fax: 919 392 8902 "Moderation in Moderation" From binand at gmail.com Tue Oct 3 05:26:37 2006 From: binand at gmail.com (Binand Sethumadhavan) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 07:26:37 +0200 Subject: /etc/shadow In-Reply-To: <20061002173453.GF16882@cisco.com> References: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F4@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> <20061002173453.GF16882@cisco.com> Message-ID: On 02/10/06, Joshua Jensen wrote: > > I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves are > > in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig package > > that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me if you'd like > > some more information. > > > I 2nd this. Are you installing with "%packages --nobase" ? Anaconda > needs authconfig to create /etc/shadow. Future versions of anaconda > will force install authconfig, regardless package selection. For now, > just make sure authconfig gets installed. Thanks to Zack & Joshua; it was indeed the missing authconfig package. I ran: authconfig --useshadow --kickstart and it generated the proper /etc/shadow for me. So I have now updated my comps.xml to include authconfig package. My comps.xml is completely homegrown; it has just one with all the packages my server install needs (about 150 or so) and nothing more. I had removed authconfig (in fact, removed all the redhat-config-*/similar packages) to get to a minimal build. Binand From Ajitabh.Pandey at bds.tv Tue Oct 3 10:48:53 2006 From: Ajitabh.Pandey at bds.tv (Ajitabh Pandey) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:48:53 +0100 Subject: /etc/shadow Message-ID: Hi Binad , Is it possible for you to post your comps.xml file. I am also looking to achieve what you have already done. At present I use the modified CentOS minimal ks.cfg file, but this is what I was looking for, package by package control. Regards. Ajitabh Pandey -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: 03 October 2006 06:27 To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: /etc/shadow On 02/10/06, Joshua Jensen wrote: > > I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves > > are in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig > > package that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me > > if you'd like some more information. > > > I 2nd this. Are you installing with "%packages --nobase" ? Anaconda > needs authconfig to create /etc/shadow. Future versions of anaconda > will force install authconfig, regardless package selection. For now, > just make sure authconfig gets installed. Thanks to Zack & Joshua; it was indeed the missing authconfig package. I ran: authconfig --useshadow --kickstart and it generated the proper /etc/shadow for me. So I have now updated my comps.xml to include authconfig package. My comps.xml is completely homegrown; it has just one with all the packages my server install needs (about 150 or so) and nothing more. I had removed authconfig (in fact, removed all the redhat-config-*/similar packages) to get to a minimal build. Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Broadcasting Dataservices. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender From Zack.Bartel at Tectura.com Tue Oct 3 14:51:58 2006 From: Zack.Bartel at Tectura.com (Bartel, Zack) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 07:51:58 -0700 Subject: /etc/shadow Message-ID: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F8@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> I would like to 2nd that as well. I am also trying to do get a minimal install disc with the fewest packages possible. I currently have it down to around 150 as well so maybe we can compare notes. Zack Bartel Tectura Tel: 425-957-4237 Mobile: 503-320-1884 E-mail: zack.bartel at tectura.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ajitabh Pandey Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:49 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: /etc/shadow Hi Binad , Is it possible for you to post your comps.xml file. I am also looking to achieve what you have already done. At present I use the modified CentOS minimal ks.cfg file, but this is what I was looking for, package by package control. Regards. Ajitabh Pandey -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: 03 October 2006 06:27 To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: /etc/shadow On 02/10/06, Joshua Jensen wrote: > > I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves > > are in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig > > package that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me > > if you'd like some more information. > > > I 2nd this. Are you installing with "%packages --nobase" ? Anaconda > needs authconfig to create /etc/shadow. Future versions of anaconda > will force install authconfig, regardless package selection. For now, > just make sure authconfig gets installed. Thanks to Zack & Joshua; it was indeed the missing authconfig package. I ran: authconfig --useshadow --kickstart and it generated the proper /etc/shadow for me. So I have now updated my comps.xml to include authconfig package. My comps.xml is completely homegrown; it has just one with all the packages my server install needs (about 150 or so) and nothing more. I had removed authconfig (in fact, removed all the redhat-config-*/similar packages) to get to a minimal build. Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Broadcasting Dataservices. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From binand at gmail.com Tue Oct 3 15:54:38 2006 From: binand at gmail.com (Binand Sethumadhavan) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:54:38 +0200 Subject: /etc/shadow In-Reply-To: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F8@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> References: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67F8@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> Message-ID: On 03/10/06, Bartel, Zack wrote: > I would like to 2nd that as well. I am also trying to do get a minimal > install disc with the fewest packages possible. I currently have it down > to around 150 as well so maybe we can compare notes. Well, my current count is 194. I'd love to see it down further, but I really can't see where I can cut packages any more :( I'm not building a CD - my installs are all over PXE/HTTP, so I probably have some more leeway than you do. My install size is now: /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 2.0G 114M 1.8G 6% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 62M 14M 45M 24% /boot /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 2.0G 441M 1.5G 24% /usr My biggest problem at the moment is sendmail - which pulls in a lot of dependencies, like m4/make etc. I'd like to have the ability for cron jobs and the like to be able to send emails, but having a full-fledged sendmail installation sounds like an overkill. Ideally, I just need a program with a /usr/sbin/sendmail binary (for mutt, which is my preferred command-line mail client for use in cron jobs and scripts) that implements an SMTP client. I am looking at some small programs at the moment. My second problem is gpm - not needed on headless servers, but vim-enhanced pulls it in (I like to see syntax highlighting in my httpd.conf and the like :) comps.xml is here: http://pastebin.com/799417 The rpm -qa --last output on the server is here: http://pastebin.com/799429 Binand From Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com Tue Oct 3 16:17:29 2006 From: Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com (Shabazian, Chip) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:17:29 -0700 Subject: /etc/shadow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I simply remove everything I don't need in %packages, and I can get a VERY small install. This is with RHEL 3: %packages # you COULD delete the following, but I want them #-portmap #-openssh-clients #-openssh-server #-openssh #-openssl #-vim-minimal #-vim-common #-dhclient # To install a Minimum X environment, the following is all that is needed # XFree86-twm -cyrus-sasl -cyrus-sasl-md5 -glib2 -kbd -krb5-libs -libuser -openldap -tcp_wrappers -usermode -zip -xinetd -wget -vixie-cron -usbutils -up2date -unzip -unix2dos -traceroute -tmpwatch -time -telnet -tcsh -tcpdump -sysreport -symlinks -stunnel -specspo -slocate -sharutils -sendmail -rsync -rpm-python -rpmdb-redhat -rootfiles -rmt -rhpl -rhnlib -redhat-release -redhat-menus -redhat-logos -readline -raidtools -quota -pyxf86config -python-optik -python -pyOpenSSL -psacct -procmail -pinfo -pdksh -pciutils -patch -passwd -parted -nss_ldap -nscd -nfs-utils -netdump -netconfig -ncompress -mt-st -mtr -mtools -mgetty -mdadm -man-pages -man -MAKEDEV -make -mailx -mailcap -m4 -lsof -lslk -logwatch -logrotate -lockdev -libtool-libs -libstdc++ -libgcj -kernel-utils -kernel -htmlview -hotplug -hesiod -hdparm -groff -gnupg -gmp -ftp -file -elfutils -eject -ed -dump -dos2unix -diffutils -devlabel -cyrus-sasl-plain -crontabs -cpio -bzip2 -binutils -bind-utils -bc -autofs -authconfig -attr -at -fbset -finger -iptables-ipv6 -irda-utils -isdn4k-utils -jfsutils -jwhois -krb5-workstation -krbafs-utils -lftp -lha -libwvstreams -nano -ppp -prelink -rdate -redhat-config-mouse -redhat-config-soundcard -rp-pppoe -rsh -samba -samba-common -schedutils -setarch -star -sudo -talk -tftp -vconfig -wireless-tools -wvdial -cyrus-sasl-gssapi -ipsec-tools -libobjc -pam_smb -acl -apmd -aspell -cups -cups-libs -dosfstools -gettext -iptables -krbafs -libjpeg -libpng -libtiff -minicom -mkbootdisk -nc -ntsysv -pam_krb5 -pax -pspell -rdist -redhat-config-network-tui -redhat-config-securitylevel-tui -redhat-lsb -setserial -setuptool -syslinux -utempter -ash -kernel-pcmcia-cs -yp-tools -ypbind -acpid -authd -diskdumputils -eal3-certification -eal3-certification-doc -iscsi-initiator-utils -jpackage-utils -laus -nss_db -pam_passwdqc -up2date-update -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:55 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: /etc/shadow On 03/10/06, Bartel, Zack wrote: > I would like to 2nd that as well. I am also trying to do get a minimal > install disc with the fewest packages possible. I currently have it > down to around 150 as well so maybe we can compare notes. Well, my current count is 194. I'd love to see it down further, but I really can't see where I can cut packages any more :( I'm not building a CD - my installs are all over PXE/HTTP, so I probably have some more leeway than you do. My install size is now: /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 2.0G 114M 1.8G 6% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 62M 14M 45M 24% /boot /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 2.0G 441M 1.5G 24% /usr My biggest problem at the moment is sendmail - which pulls in a lot of dependencies, like m4/make etc. I'd like to have the ability for cron jobs and the like to be able to send emails, but having a full-fledged sendmail installation sounds like an overkill. Ideally, I just need a program with a /usr/sbin/sendmail binary (for mutt, which is my preferred command-line mail client for use in cron jobs and scripts) that implements an SMTP client. I am looking at some small programs at the moment. My second problem is gpm - not needed on headless servers, but vim-enhanced pulls it in (I like to see syntax highlighting in my httpd.conf and the like :) comps.xml is here: http://pastebin.com/799417 The rpm -qa --last output on the server is here: http://pastebin.com/799429 Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From Zack.Bartel at Tectura.com Tue Oct 3 16:22:07 2006 From: Zack.Bartel at Tectura.com (Bartel, Zack) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:22:07 -0700 Subject: /etc/shadow Message-ID: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E016A67FB@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> This is what I have so far. It's a minimal package set for running a jvm. http://pastebin.osuosl.org/260 Zack Bartel Tectura Tel: 425-957-4237 Mobile: 503-320-1884 E-mail: zack.bartel at tectura.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:17 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: /etc/shadow I simply remove everything I don't need in %packages, and I can get a VERY small install. This is with RHEL 3: %packages # you COULD delete the following, but I want them #-portmap #-openssh-clients #-openssh-server #-openssh #-openssl #-vim-minimal #-vim-common #-dhclient # To install a Minimum X environment, the following is all that is needed # XFree86-twm -cyrus-sasl -cyrus-sasl-md5 -glib2 -kbd -krb5-libs -libuser -openldap -tcp_wrappers -usermode -zip -xinetd -wget -vixie-cron -usbutils -up2date -unzip -unix2dos -traceroute -tmpwatch -time -telnet -tcsh -tcpdump -sysreport -symlinks -stunnel -specspo -slocate -sharutils -sendmail -rsync -rpm-python -rpmdb-redhat -rootfiles -rmt -rhpl -rhnlib -redhat-release -redhat-menus -redhat-logos -readline -raidtools -quota -pyxf86config -python-optik -python -pyOpenSSL -psacct -procmail -pinfo -pdksh -pciutils -patch -passwd -parted -nss_ldap -nscd -nfs-utils -netdump -netconfig -ncompress -mt-st -mtr -mtools -mgetty -mdadm -man-pages -man -MAKEDEV -make -mailx -mailcap -m4 -lsof -lslk -logwatch -logrotate -lockdev -libtool-libs -libstdc++ -libgcj -kernel-utils -kernel -htmlview -hotplug -hesiod -hdparm -groff -gnupg -gmp -ftp -file -elfutils -eject -ed -dump -dos2unix -diffutils -devlabel -cyrus-sasl-plain -crontabs -cpio -bzip2 -binutils -bind-utils -bc -autofs -authconfig -attr -at -fbset -finger -iptables-ipv6 -irda-utils -isdn4k-utils -jfsutils -jwhois -krb5-workstation -krbafs-utils -lftp -lha -libwvstreams -nano -ppp -prelink -rdate -redhat-config-mouse -redhat-config-soundcard -rp-pppoe -rsh -samba -samba-common -schedutils -setarch -star -sudo -talk -tftp -vconfig -wireless-tools -wvdial -cyrus-sasl-gssapi -ipsec-tools -libobjc -pam_smb -acl -apmd -aspell -cups -cups-libs -dosfstools -gettext -iptables -krbafs -libjpeg -libpng -libtiff -minicom -mkbootdisk -nc -ntsysv -pam_krb5 -pax -pspell -rdist -redhat-config-network-tui -redhat-config-securitylevel-tui -redhat-lsb -setserial -setuptool -syslinux -utempter -ash -kernel-pcmcia-cs -yp-tools -ypbind -acpid -authd -diskdumputils -eal3-certification -eal3-certification-doc -iscsi-initiator-utils -jpackage-utils -laus -nss_db -pam_passwdqc -up2date-update -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:55 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: /etc/shadow On 03/10/06, Bartel, Zack wrote: > I would like to 2nd that as well. I am also trying to do get a minimal > install disc with the fewest packages possible. I currently have it > down to around 150 as well so maybe we can compare notes. Well, my current count is 194. I'd love to see it down further, but I really can't see where I can cut packages any more :( I'm not building a CD - my installs are all over PXE/HTTP, so I probably have some more leeway than you do. My install size is now: /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 2.0G 114M 1.8G 6% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 62M 14M 45M 24% /boot /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 2.0G 441M 1.5G 24% /usr My biggest problem at the moment is sendmail - which pulls in a lot of dependencies, like m4/make etc. I'd like to have the ability for cron jobs and the like to be able to send emails, but having a full-fledged sendmail installation sounds like an overkill. Ideally, I just need a program with a /usr/sbin/sendmail binary (for mutt, which is my preferred command-line mail client for use in cron jobs and scripts) that implements an SMTP client. I am looking at some small programs at the moment. My second problem is gpm - not needed on headless servers, but vim-enhanced pulls it in (I like to see syntax highlighting in my httpd.conf and the like :) comps.xml is here: http://pastebin.com/799417 The rpm -qa --last output on the server is here: http://pastebin.com/799429 Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From johnny at navtek.no Fri Oct 6 10:12:53 2006 From: johnny at navtek.no (Johnny Ljunggren) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:12:53 +0200 Subject: Norwegian characters in display file Message-ID: <45262C25.2000705@navtek.no> Hello I'm using some norwegian characters in the display file, but they all come out strange. eg. ? becomes ? and ? becomes ? Any chance of fixing this? -- Johnny L From phr at doc.ic.ac.uk Fri Oct 6 11:12:49 2006 From: phr at doc.ic.ac.uk (Philip Rowlands) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:12:49 +0100 (BST) Subject: Norwegian characters in display file In-Reply-To: <45262C25.2000705@navtek.no> References: <45262C25.2000705@navtek.no> Message-ID: On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Johnny Ljunggren wrote: > I'm using some norwegian characters in the display file, but they all > come out strange. eg. ? becomes ? and ? becomes ? This bug report doesn't give much to go on, I'm afraid. Please give more details regarding: - What did you do? - What happened? - What did you expect to happen? > Any chance of fixing this? It sounds like you've tried to save text in an 8-bit encoding, and have different codepages for input/output. How is this related to kickstart? Cheers, Phil From johnny at navtek.no Fri Oct 6 11:36:04 2006 From: johnny at navtek.no (Johnny Ljunggren) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:36:04 +0200 Subject: Norwegian characters in display file In-Reply-To: References: <45262C25.2000705@navtek.no> Message-ID: <45263FA4.50605@navtek.no> Sorry for being so brief and somewhat OT. I'll elaborate: >> I'm using some norwegian characters in the display file, but they all >> come out strange. eg. ? becomes ? and ? becomes ? > > This bug report doesn't give much to go on, I'm afraid. Please give > more details regarding: > - What did you do? > - What happened? > - What did you expect to happen? I'm creating a bootable CD for installing a modified FC5 using kickstart to install. The isolinux.cfg file on the CD has a line that says: display menu.msg This file, menu.msg, was edited with emacs on a UTF-8 system and includes some norwegian characters. However, when I boot from the CD those characters come out strange. I guess it is something about the encoding but I don't really know how to go about fixing it. -- Johnny L From Sean at CloudShield.com Fri Oct 6 18:21:41 2006 From: Sean at CloudShield.com (Sean Goller) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:21:41 -0700 Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Message-ID: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B32@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com Fri Oct 6 18:32:00 2006 From: Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com (Shabazian, Chip) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:32:00 -0700 Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation In-Reply-To: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B32@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> Message-ID: I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sean at CloudShield.com Fri Oct 6 18:39:53 2006 From: Sean at CloudShield.com (Sean Goller) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:39:53 -0700 Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B33@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> Unfortunately I am constrained and cannot do anything that involves something other than booting with a CD or copying a file onto the device and having it executed. The only other possibility is if, like you said, I could boot with the kickstart kernel and run a script to remove the rpms then run the installation initrd. But that seems like even more hoops than my original attempt. -Sean. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:32 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com Fri Oct 6 18:45:48 2006 From: Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com (Shabazian, Chip) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:45:48 -0700 Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation In-Reply-To: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B33@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> Message-ID: If you can copy a file onto the device and execute it, then you can do the entire build with that one file. Copy a script that removes the unwanted rpms, installs the build kernel, sets up grub, and reboots the box. The server will build completely unattended and the unwanted rpms will already be removed. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:40 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Unfortunately I am constrained and cannot do anything that involves something other than booting with a CD or copying a file onto the device and having it executed. The only other possibility is if, like you said, I could boot with the kickstart kernel and run a script to remove the rpms then run the installation initrd. But that seems like even more hoops than my original attempt. -Sean. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:32 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sean at CloudShield.com Mon Oct 9 21:30:49 2006 From: Sean at CloudShield.com (Sean Goller) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:30:49 -0700 Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B34@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> So I've gotten a bit farther, but I am unable to get the kernel to load the kickstart file off the hard drive. The partition map on the HD is /dev/hda1 is /boot, and /dev/hda2 is /. I've put ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg in the append line of the relevant grub entry, and it never seems to find it, even though that's where I've placed ks.cfg (in /boot when the system is booted normally) Right now the grub entry looks like: title Upgrade root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-upgrade ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-upgrade.img append lang= ramdisk_size=8192 vga=788 ks=hd:hda1/ks.cfg upgradeany -S. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:46 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation If you can copy a file onto the device and execute it, then you can do the entire build with that one file. Copy a script that removes the unwanted rpms, installs the build kernel, sets up grub, and reboots the box. The server will build completely unattended and the unwanted rpms will already be removed. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:40 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Unfortunately I am constrained and cannot do anything that involves something other than booting with a CD or copying a file onto the device and having it executed. The only other possibility is if, like you said, I could boot with the kickstart kernel and run a script to remove the rpms then run the installation initrd. But that seems like even more hoops than my original attempt. -Sean. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:32 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From egunnett at qualcomm.com Mon Oct 9 21:43:22 2006 From: egunnett at qualcomm.com (Gunnett, Eric) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:43:22 -0700 Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation In-Reply-To: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B34@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> Message-ID: I believe this line: ks=hd:hda1/ks.cfg Should be the following: ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg Hope this works. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:31 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation So I've gotten a bit farther, but I am unable to get the kernel to load the kickstart file off the hard drive. The partition map on the HD is /dev/hda1 is /boot, and /dev/hda2 is /. I've put ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg in the append line of the relevant grub entry, and it never seems to find it, even though that's where I've placed ks.cfg (in /boot when the system is booted normally) Right now the grub entry looks like: title Upgrade root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-upgrade ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-upgrade.img append lang= ramdisk_size=8192 vga=788 ks=hd:hda1/ks.cfg upgradeany -S. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:46 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation If you can copy a file onto the device and execute it, then you can do the entire build with that one file. Copy a script that removes the unwanted rpms, installs the build kernel, sets up grub, and reboots the box. The server will build completely unattended and the unwanted rpms will already be removed. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:40 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Unfortunately I am constrained and cannot do anything that involves something other than booting with a CD or copying a file onto the device and having it executed. The only other possibility is if, like you said, I could boot with the kickstart kernel and run a script to remove the rpms then run the installation initrd. But that seems like even more hoops than my original attempt. -Sean. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:32 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sean at CloudShield.com Mon Oct 9 22:02:30 2006 From: Sean at CloudShield.com (Sean Goller) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:02:30 -0700 Subject: loading kickstart file from hard drive (was RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <326A0FB16D8B7741802D10BFFAEFFC05D45B35@cs-exch.cloudshield.com> argh, my bad. I was typing out the grub info, and typoed. ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg is what I have. Is there a way to debug this? there really isn't any information printed out on vt3 about what's going on. -S. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gunnett, Eric Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:43 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation I believe this line: ks=hd:hda1/ks.cfg Should be the following: ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg Hope this works. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:31 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation So I've gotten a bit farther, but I am unable to get the kernel to load the kickstart file off the hard drive. The partition map on the HD is /dev/hda1 is /boot, and /dev/hda2 is /. I've put ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg in the append line of the relevant grub entry, and it never seems to find it, even though that's where I've placed ks.cfg (in /boot when the system is booted normally) Right now the grub entry looks like: title Upgrade root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-upgrade ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-upgrade.img append lang= ramdisk_size=8192 vga=788 ks=hd:hda1/ks.cfg upgradeany -S. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:46 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation If you can copy a file onto the device and execute it, then you can do the entire build with that one file. Copy a script that removes the unwanted rpms, installs the build kernel, sets up grub, and reboots the box. The server will build completely unattended and the unwanted rpms will already be removed. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:40 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Unfortunately I am constrained and cannot do anything that involves something other than booting with a CD or copying a file onto the device and having it executed. The only other possibility is if, like you said, I could boot with the kickstart kernel and run a script to remove the rpms then run the installation initrd. But that seems like even more hoops than my original attempt. -Sean. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:32 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once. Chip ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation Hi, I'm currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm -r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn't seem to work for some reason. What I'm doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here's the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn't work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'm about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I'd appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert at headsprout.com Wed Oct 11 16:44:40 2006 From: robert at headsprout.com (Robert Denton) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:44:40 -0400 Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? Message-ID: <4A11F2E7-42FA-4226-AF9A-47CF9889B8BE@headsprout.com> Hi all. I have a question regarding my kickstart setup that may be a bit out of the scope of this discussion list but I'll give it a try: Currently, I boot new systems to a USB-CDROM drive that has the first install cd in it. I then type: linux ks=http://..... at the boot prompt. I'd love to be able to do the same thing but from a USB Flash Drive (2 gig Corsair Flash Voyager). So I copied the contents of the 1st install cd to the flash drive. Unfortaunately all the boot options in the BIOS don't seem to recognize the USB flash drive. Any suggestions? Thanks! From Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com Wed Oct 11 17:03:35 2006 From: Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com (Shabazian, Chip) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:03:35 -0700 Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? In-Reply-To: <4A11F2E7-42FA-4226-AF9A-47CF9889B8BE@headsprout.com> Message-ID: You need to use the diskboot.img file on your USB key, but be aware that this will wipe it out: dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda (assuming sda is your USB drive) I'm assuming RHEL 4 -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert Denton Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:45 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? Hi all. I have a question regarding my kickstart setup that may be a bit out of the scope of this discussion list but I'll give it a try: Currently, I boot new systems to a USB-CDROM drive that has the first install cd in it. I then type: linux ks=http://..... at the boot prompt. I'd love to be able to do the same thing but from a USB Flash Drive (2 gig Corsair Flash Voyager). So I copied the contents of the 1st install cd to the flash drive. Unfortaunately all the boot options in the BIOS don't seem to recognize the USB flash drive. Any suggestions? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From Keith.Harner at freescale.com Wed Oct 11 17:07:12 2006 From: Keith.Harner at freescale.com (Harner Keith-FKH006) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:07:12 -0700 Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: If the BIOS does not support USB booting you cannot. Install a PXE boot server on your kickstart server. However, if your system does not support USB boot devices it likely does not support PXE either. Good opportunity to upgrade!!!! -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:04 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? You need to use the diskboot.img file on your USB key, but be aware that this will wipe it out: dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda (assuming sda is your USB drive) I'm assuming RHEL 4 -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert Denton Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:45 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? Hi all. I have a question regarding my kickstart setup that may be a bit out of the scope of this discussion list but I'll give it a try: Currently, I boot new systems to a USB-CDROM drive that has the first install cd in it. I then type: linux ks=http://..... at the boot prompt. I'd love to be able to do the same thing but from a USB Flash Drive (2 gig Corsair Flash Voyager). So I copied the contents of the 1st install cd to the flash drive. Unfortaunately all the boot options in the BIOS don't seem to recognize the USB flash drive. Any suggestions? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From klaus.steden at thomson.net Wed Oct 11 17:19:53 2006 From: klaus.steden at thomson.net (Klaus Steden) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:19:53 -0400 Subject: Kickstarting from a USB Flash Drive? In-Reply-To: <4A11F2E7-42FA-4226-AF9A-47CF9889B8BE@headsprout.com> References: <4A11F2E7-42FA-4226-AF9A-47CF9889B8BE@headsprout.com> Message-ID: <20061011171953.GB1139@thomson.net> I'll add a quick 'me too' to all the other replies to this thread so far ... If your BIOS supports USB booting, you should have no problem creating a bootable USB disk. I can send you Makefile fragments that I use to generate a bootable disk image I write to USB drives ... it's not really any different a process than booting from another disk medium (not optical, though, that's a case unto itself). Good luck! Klaus From jaiber.john at gmail.com Thu Oct 12 08:51:30 2006 From: jaiber.john at gmail.com (jaiber john) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:21:30 +0530 Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart Message-ID: Is there a way to specify "advanced options for grub" bootloader in kickstart file? I want to have the functionality of changing the device order which is provided under "Advanced bootloader options" in a normal RH installer. Say if I have two disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) and I install on /dev/sdb, the default action is to install bootloader in /dev/sda. But I want it to install bootloader on /dev/sdb MBR. Is this possible in kickstart? From oded_dd at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 10:50:26 2006 From: oded_dd at yahoo.com (עודד דוד) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: making a kickstart disk RH4 Message-ID: <20061012105026.2364.qmail@web32411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi. i am trying to create a kick start disk for minimal installation of RH4. and for some reason it fails. it returns abnormal error, in the stage of the rpms. Can anyone help me? maybe sent me a procedure how to do it in order for me to check what i am doing wrong Regards Oded David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From Greg.Caetano at hp.com Thu Oct 12 15:02:25 2006 From: Greg.Caetano at hp.com (Caetano, Greg) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:02:25 -0400 Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Which version of RHEL are you working with. RHEL4 has a --driveorder option for the bootloader kickstart directive Greg Caetano, RHCE Hewlett Packard TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering Chicago, IL greg.caetano at hp.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jaiber john Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:52 AM To: Kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart Is there a way to specify "advanced options for grub" bootloader in kickstart file? I want to have the functionality of changing the device order which is provided under "Advanced bootloader options" in a normal RH installer. Say if I have two disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) and I install on /dev/sdb, the default action is to install bootloader in /dev/sda. But I want it to install bootloader on /dev/sdb MBR. Is this possible in kickstart? _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From grgoffe at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 19:56:28 2006 From: grgoffe at yahoo.com (George R Goffe) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: A question about automatic disk partitioning. Message-ID: <20061012195628.60425.qmail@web53111.mail.yahoo.com> Howdy, I'm trying to get the enclosed partition map setup by kickstart. I keep getting the message "Unable to locate partition sda1 to use for /boot". The snipit below is from the ks.cfg file that system-config-kickstart generated. Is this a bug in anaconda or system-config-kickstart or am I doing something wrong? Please help. Regards, George... # Disk partitioning information part /boot --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --onpart=sda1 --size=1024 part / --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --onpart=sda2 --size=1024 part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda3 --size=1024 part /var --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --onpart=sda5 --size=1024 part /opt --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --onpart=sda6 --size=3072 part /usr --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --onpart=sda7 --size=12288 part /home --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --grow --onpart=sda8 --size=1 ===== _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ ----- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ ----- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ ----- "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Will Rogers __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From email at jasonkohles.com Thu Oct 12 20:25:44 2006 From: email at jasonkohles.com (Jason Kohles) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:25:44 -0400 Subject: A question about automatic disk partitioning. In-Reply-To: <20061012195628.60425.qmail@web53111.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061012195628.60425.qmail@web53111.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <070A410B-DA2C-4E10-9864-9693FBE17AC4@jasonkohles.com> On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:56 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to get the enclosed partition map setup by > kickstart. I keep getting the message "Unable to locate > partition sda1 to use for /boot". > > The snipit below is from the ks.cfg file that > system-config-kickstart generated. Is this a bug in > anaconda or system-config-kickstart or am I doing > something wrong? > Partitions specified to --onpart must already exist. If you specify --onpart then --size is ignored, so if you are specifying --size AND --onpart, then you are doing something wrong... > Please help. > > Regards, > > George... > > > # Disk partitioning information > part /boot --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 > --fstype="ext3" --onpart=sda1 --size=1024 > part / --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" > --onpart=sda2 --size=1024 > part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 > --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda3 --size=1024 > part /var --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" > --onpart=sda5 --size=1024 > part /opt --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" > --onpart=sda6 --size=3072 > part /usr --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" > --onpart=sda7 --size=12288 > part /home --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --grow > --onpart=sda8 --size=1 > > > ===== > _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ ----- > _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ > _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ ----- > _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ > _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ ----- > "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that > ain't so." Will Rogers > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Jason Kohles email at jasonkohles.com http://www.jasonkohles.com/ "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire From patchu1 at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 22:27:36 2006 From: patchu1 at yahoo.com (Pat) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Problem with reading kickstart file from second dvdrom drive Message-ID: <20061012222736.12699.qmail@web32506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I created my own custom installation DVD where my kickstart file is located in the root directory(/) of the DVD. The DVD is a copy of the installation DVD so it also contains all the RPMs, etc. The intended usage is the users boots with this DVD, types "installme" and the install carries out the installation based on my kickstart file all off the DVD. On the system I am installing to, the DVDROM is the second(!) drive connected to the IDE controller, the first drive is a CDRW. Installation fails when it tries to read this kickstart file from the install DVD. Note that I can still do a manual installation fine from the DVD. Reading the kickstart file is the only problem. If I unplug the CDRW and configure the DVDROM as the only drive, the kickstart installation from the DVD works! Does anyone have any guesses on what I have configured incorrectly which is preventing it from working when I install from the second drive? How can I change it so this custom installation DVD would work whether the DVDROM was the first device or second? Details: I require the user to type "installme" at the install menu to follow my kickstart file. The relevant lines from isolinux.cfg are: label installme kernel vmlinuz append ks=cdrom:/my.cfg initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 On a failed kickstart installation (when DVDROM is the second drive), I get sent to the media check screen. The following is the output when I press Alt-F3 and Alt-F4: Alt-F3: *getting kickstart file *getting kickstart file from first CDROM *getFileFromBlockDevice (hda,/my.cfg) *failed to mount CD device hda *failed to mount CD device hdb *mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fd is 12 *Could not parse pvd Alt-F4: <6>cdrom: open failed <7>ISO 9600 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8 <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8 <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format <4>VFC: can't find the ext2 filesystem on dev loop0 Thanks for any tips! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From jaiber.john at gmail.com Fri Oct 13 04:51:07 2006 From: jaiber.john at gmail.com (jaiber john) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:21:07 +0530 Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am using RHEL4 U2. But I dont find this --driveorder option in the kickstart manual. Can you provide reference to that or tell me how to use it? Thanks, Jaiber John On 10/12/06, Caetano, Greg wrote: > Which version of RHEL are you working with. RHEL4 has a --driveorder > option for the bootloader kickstart directive > > > Greg Caetano, RHCE > Hewlett Packard TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering > Chicago, IL > greg.caetano at hp.com > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jaiber john > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:52 AM > To: Kickstart-list at redhat.com > Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart > > Is there a way to specify "advanced options for grub" bootloader in > kickstart file? I want to have the functionality of changing the > device order which is provided under "Advanced bootloader options" in > a normal RH installer. > > > Say if I have two disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) and I install on > /dev/sdb, the default action is to install bootloader in /dev/sda. But > I want it to install bootloader on /dev/sdb MBR. Is this possible in > kickstart? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 06:35:34 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:05:34 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from http URL Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D3@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Created a pxe file with the ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg Error thrown on the console is Waiting for the link.. 15 sec.. Finally failed to get the ks file. Where and what is the issue ? I checked the http server. Able to "wget" the ks file from the same URL. IS port number a issue ? 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Binand From Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com Fri Oct 13 07:37:21 2006 From: Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com (Shabazian, Chip) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:37:21 -0700 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from http URL In-Reply-To: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D3@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: May be a well known timeout issue. Are these connected to Cisco switches? If so is portfast enabled? ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of vivek.dosi Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:36 PM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from http URL Created a pxe file with the ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg Error thrown on the console is Waiting for the link.. 15 sec.. Finally failed to get the ks file. Where and what is the issue ? I checked the http server. Able to "wget" the ks file from the same URL. IS port number a issue ? Do the ks and pxe support port number in the URL? - Vivek -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 07:46:13 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:16:13 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D3@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D4@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Yes , the DHCP IP address allocation is working fine. Confirmed from the dhcp log messages. It contacts tftp server to fecth the kernel and initrd. After that, it fails to get the KS file from the mentioned location/URL :( -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 12:28 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > Created a pxe file with the > ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg > Error thrown on the console is > Waiting for the link.. Do the DHCP IP address allocation work fine? Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3226 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com Fri Oct 13 07:40:46 2006 From: Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com (Shabazian, Chip) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:40:46 -0700 Subject: Problem with reading kickstart file from second dvdrom drive In-Reply-To: <20061012222736.12699.qmail@web32506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: If you put the ks.cfg file into the initrd, then use ks=file, it won't matter whether the dvd is hda,b,c... etc. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Pat Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:28 PM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: Problem with reading kickstart file from second dvdrom drive I created my own custom installation DVD where my kickstart file is located in the root directory(/) of the DVD. The DVD is a copy of the installation DVD so it also contains all the RPMs, etc. The intended usage is the users boots with this DVD, types "installme" and the install carries out the installation based on my kickstart file all off the DVD. On the system I am installing to, the DVDROM is the second(!) drive connected to the IDE controller, the first drive is a CDRW. Installation fails when it tries to read this kickstart file from the install DVD. Note that I can still do a manual installation fine from the DVD. Reading the kickstart file is the only problem. If I unplug the CDRW and configure the DVDROM as the only drive, the kickstart installation from the DVD works! Does anyone have any guesses on what I have configured incorrectly which is preventing it from working when I install from the second drive? How can I change it so this custom installation DVD would work whether the DVDROM was the first device or second? Details: I require the user to type "installme" at the install menu to follow my kickstart file. The relevant lines from isolinux.cfg are: label installme kernel vmlinuz append ks=cdrom:/my.cfg initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 On a failed kickstart installation (when DVDROM is the second drive), I get sent to the media check screen. The following is the output when I press Alt-F3 and Alt-F4: Alt-F3: *getting kickstart file *getting kickstart file from first CDROM *getFileFromBlockDevice (hda,/my.cfg) *failed to mount CD device hda *failed to mount CD device hdb *mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fd is 12 *Could not parse pvd Alt-F4: <6>cdrom: open failed <7>ISO 9600 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8 <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8 <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format <4>VFC: can't find the ext2 filesystem on dev loop0 Thanks for any tips! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From Scott.White at barclayscapital.com Fri Oct 13 07:45:31 2006 From: Scott.White at barclayscapital.com (Scott.White at barclayscapital.com) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:45:31 +0100 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL Message-ID: Do you have more than one Network interface? It could be that RHEL believes. Eth0 is a different interface than you think. This can happen when you have Broadcom on board and Intel add in Nics in the same machine. The Intel ones get assigned eth0 Try adding ksdevice=eth2 to your PXE boot line. (Or some other eth device depending on how many you have) Scott -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com To: Discussion list about Kickstart Sent: Fri Oct 13 08:46:13 2006 Subject: RE: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL Yes , the DHCP IP address allocation is working fine. Confirmed from the dhcp log messages. It contacts tftp server to fecth the kernel and initrd. After that, it fails to get the KS file from the mentioned location/URL :( -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 12:28 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > Created a pxe file with the > ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg > Error thrown on the console is > Waiting for the link.. Do the DHCP IP address allocation work fine? Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. 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Especially if the interface used by the BIOS for PXE is not the same one Anaconda uses for fetching the kickstart file. Further, a silly question - is the pxe config file served fine from the TFTP server? Binand From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 07:59:12 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:29:12 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL References: Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D5@jal.iiitb.ac.in> How do i ebable portfast ? -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 1:07 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** May be a well known timeout issue. Are these connected to Cisco switches? If so is portfast enabled? ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of vivek.dosi Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:36 PM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from http URL Created a pxe file with the ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg Error thrown on the console is Waiting for the link.. 15 sec.. Finally failed to get the ks file. Where and what is the issue ? I checked the http server. Able to "wget" the ks file from the same URL. IS port number a issue ? Do the ks and pxe support port number in the URL? - Vivek -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3294 bytes Desc: not available URL: From binand at gmail.com Fri Oct 13 07:53:51 2006 From: binand at gmail.com (Binand Sethumadhavan) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:53:51 +0200 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL In-Reply-To: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D5@jal.iiitb.ac.in> References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D5@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > How do i ebable portfast ? If it is a Cisco switch running IOS, then: conf t int spanning-tree portfast exit exit wri mem But given the fact that your first DHCP request works fine, I personally think your issue is solved by ksdevice= rather than portfast. Binand From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 08:01:25 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:31:25 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D3@jal.iiitb.ac.in><8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D4@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D6@jal.iiitb.ac.in> yup, machine boots -> Gets IP from DHCP -> Next server configured to tftp server -> From tftp it gets the pxe file. -> which loads kernel and initrd.img .....And then timeout for ks file(which points to a http URL) -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 1:15 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > Yes , the DHCP IP address allocation is working fine. > Confirmed from the dhcp log messages. > > It contacts tftp server to fecth the kernel and initrd. > After that, it fails to get the KS file from the mentioned location/URL :( Multiple interfaces on the box? You might need ksdevice=ethN. Especially if the interface used by the BIOS for PXE is not the same one Anaconda uses for fetching the kickstart file. Further, a silly question - is the pxe config file served fine from the TFTP server? Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3561 bytes Desc: not available URL: From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 08:18:48 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:48:48 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D5@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D7@jal.iiitb.ac.in> I tried configuring the ksdevice to eth0/eth01 Still at the same. But made one discovery .. if i remove the port number from the http URL.( and copy the ks.cfg to default location on http server , from where its accesible without giving port number.) it moves one step forward. So , should i assume that pxe does not support port number in the http URL ?? BUT now it stucks at #Linux OS Part of Kickstart url --url http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS So , Kickstart file too doesnt support a http url with a port number ??? :( -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 1:23 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > How do i ebable portfast ? If it is a Cisco switch running IOS, then: conf t int spanning-tree portfast exit exit wri mem But given the fact that your first DHCP request works fine, I personally think your issue is solved by ksdevice= rather than portfast. Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3613 bytes Desc: not available URL: From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 08:18:58 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:48:58 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL References: Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D8@jal.iiitb.ac.in> I tried configuring the ksdevice to eth0/eth01 Still at the same. But made one discovery .. if i remove the port number from the http URL.( and copy the ks.cfg to default location on http server , from where its accesible without giving port number.) it moves one step forward. So , should i assume that pxe does not support port number in the http URL ?? BUT now it stucks at #Linux OS Part of Kickstart url --url http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS So , Kickstart file too doesnt support a http url with a port number ??? :( -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Scott.White at barclayscapital.com Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 1:15 PM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** Do you have more than one Network interface? It could be that RHEL believes. Eth0 is a different interface than you think. This can happen when you have Broadcom on board and Intel add in Nics in the same machine. The Intel ones get assigned eth0 Try adding ksdevice=eth2 to your PXE boot line. (Or some other eth device depending on how many you have) Scott -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com To: Discussion list about Kickstart Sent: Fri Oct 13 08:46:13 2006 Subject: RE: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL Yes , the DHCP IP address allocation is working fine. Confirmed from the dhcp log messages. It contacts tftp server to fecth the kernel and initrd. After that, it fails to get the KS file from the mentioned location/URL :( -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 12:28 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > Created a pxe file with the > ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg > Error thrown on the console is > Waiting for the link.. Do the DHCP IP address allocation work fine? Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. 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Binand From vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in Fri Oct 13 08:33:16 2006 From: vivek.dosi at iiitb.ac.in (vivek.dosi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:03:16 +0530 Subject: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D5@jal.iiitb.ac.in><8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D7@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D9@jal.iiitb.ac.in> This option could have been a possible reason but i checked, no firewall running. Without any proxy setting , able to open the url in mozilla. wget is also working fine, from another system which is in the same subnet. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 1:42 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe fromhttpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > if i remove the port number from the http URL.( and copy the ks.cfg to default location on http server , from where its accesible without giving port number.) > > So , should i assume that pxe does not support port number in the http URL ?? How about "there is a firewall between my box and the installation server that blocks my custom port"? Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3545 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Greg.Caetano at hp.com Fri Oct 13 13:56:11 2006 From: Greg.Caetano at hp.com (Caetano, Greg) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:56:11 -0400 Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart References: Message-ID: Jaiber, Check this page for the options http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html regards Greg ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of jaiber john Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 12:51 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: advanced grub options in kickstart I am using RHEL4 U2. But I dont find this --driveorder option in the kickstart manual. Can you provide reference to that or tell me how to use it? Thanks, Jaiber John On 10/12/06, Caetano, Greg wrote: > Which version of RHEL are you working with. RHEL4 has a --driveorder > option for the bootloader kickstart directive > > > Greg Caetano, RHCE > Hewlett Packard TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering > Chicago, IL > greg.caetano at hp.com > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jaiber john > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:52 AM > To: Kickstart-list at redhat.com > Subject: advanced grub options in kickstart > > Is there a way to specify "advanced options for grub" bootloader in > kickstart file? I want to have the functionality of changing the > device order which is provided under "Advanced bootloader options" in > a normal RH installer. > > > Say if I have two disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) and I install on > /dev/sdb, the default action is to install bootloader in /dev/sda. But > I want it to install bootloader on /dev/sdb MBR. Is this possible in > kickstart? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Typically you will see an error : DHCPDISCOVER from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx via eth0: network xx.xx.xx.xx :no free leases Regards, dgc -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of vivek.dosi Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:46 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL Yes , the DHCP IP address allocation is working fine. Confirmed from the dhcp log messages. It contacts tftp server to fecth the kernel and initrd. After that, it fails to get the KS file from the mentioned location/URL :( -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Binand Sethumadhavan Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 12:28 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Issue with installing RHEL from a Kickstart file/pxe from httpURL *********************** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***********-*********** On 13/10/06, vivek.dosi wrote: > Created a pxe file with the > ks=http://x.x.x.x:17687/provision/OS/ks.cfg > Error thrown on the console is > Waiting for the link.. Do the DHCP IP address allocation work fine? Binand _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From lreed at boomerang.com Fri Oct 13 14:53:29 2006 From: lreed at boomerang.com (Lance Boomerang) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:53:29 -0400 Subject: Issue with RAID/LVM on re-installs In-Reply-To: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D8@jal.iiitb.ac.in> References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D8@jal.iiitb.ac.in> Message-ID: <452FA869.1040202@boomerang.com> Here is an odd one. RHEL4U4 I have a PXE based kickstart that creates a RAID + LVM setup on two internal SATA drives using the below kickstart entry. This works fine on the first install. However, I am working on a setup where I can rebuild hosts often if we need to for whatever reason. If I re-kick the hosts again, the process works great up until the reboot. Then, *sometimes* the machine will stop and the console will display "GRUB" and hang forever. I can try the kickstart again, but the results are the same. However, if I manually reinstall and not use md RAID, then a new kickstart install with this setup works fine again. So, only thing I can think of is that something is not getting cleared in the kickstart process on the drives that is confusing GRUB as it starts to boot. I tried adding all the disk clearing options to the kickstart file but it has not made a difference. Any ideas? kickstart partition section: ---------------------------- bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb --initlabel zerombr yes part raid.13 --size=100 --ondisk=sda part raid.14 --size=100 --ondisk=sdb part raid.17 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sdb part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.13 raid.14 raid pv.18 --fstype "physical volume (LVM)" --level=RAID1 raid.16 raid.17 volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.18 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2016 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol04 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=5024 TIA, Lance From Greg.Caetano at hp.com Fri Oct 13 15:40:04 2006 From: Greg.Caetano at hp.com (Caetano, Greg) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:40:04 -0400 Subject: Issue with RAID/LVM on re-installs References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D8@jal.iiitb.ac.in> <452FA869.1040202@boomerang.com> Message-ID: Lance I've seen similar issues due to the LVM information being on the physical drives. I usually clear out the first 1M of disk information before starting a re-install. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1 Greg Caetano RHCE HP Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Lance Boomerang Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 10:53 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Issue with RAID/LVM on re-installs Here is an odd one. RHEL4U4 I have a PXE based kickstart that creates a RAID + LVM setup on two internal SATA drives using the below kickstart entry. This works fine on the first install. However, I am working on a setup where I can rebuild hosts often if we need to for whatever reason. If I re-kick the hosts again, the process works great up until the reboot. Then, *sometimes* the machine will stop and the console will display "GRUB" and hang forever. I can try the kickstart again, but the results are the same. However, if I manually reinstall and not use md RAID, then a new kickstart install with this setup works fine again. So, only thing I can think of is that something is not getting cleared in the kickstart process on the drives that is confusing GRUB as it starts to boot. I tried adding all the disk clearing options to the kickstart file but it has not made a difference. Any ideas? kickstart partition section: ---------------------------- bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb --initlabel zerombr yes part raid.13 --size=100 --ondisk=sda part raid.14 --size=100 --ondisk=sdb part raid.17 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sdb part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.13 raid.14 raid pv.18 --fstype "physical volume (LVM)" --level=RAID1 raid.16 raid.17 volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.18 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2016 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol04 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=5024 TIA, Lance _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5455 bytes Desc: not available URL: From lreed at boomerang.com Fri Oct 13 16:02:27 2006 From: lreed at boomerang.com (Lance Boomerang) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:02:27 -0400 Subject: Issue with RAID/LVM on re-installs In-Reply-To: References: <8626C1B7EB748940BCDD7596134632BEE3C5D8@jal.iiitb.ac.in> <452FA869.1040202@boomerang.com> Message-ID: <452FB893.5060002@boomerang.com> Excellent, that worked! I added a %pre entry to fix this and it works. %pre dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=1 Thanks so much. Lance Caetano, Greg wrote: > Lance > > I've seen similar issues due to the LVM information being on the physical drives. I usually clear out the first 1M of disk information before starting a re-install. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1 > > Greg Caetano RHCE > HP Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering > > ________________________________ > > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Lance Boomerang > Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 10:53 AM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: Issue with RAID/LVM on re-installs > > > > Here is an odd one. > > RHEL4U4 > I have a PXE based kickstart that creates a RAID + LVM setup on two > internal SATA drives using the > below kickstart entry. This works fine on the first install. However, > I am working on a setup where I > can rebuild hosts often if we need to for whatever reason. If I re-kick > the hosts again, the process works great > up until the reboot. Then, *sometimes* the machine will stop and the > console will display "GRUB" and hang forever. > I can try the kickstart again, but the results are the same. However, > if I manually reinstall and not use md RAID, then > a new kickstart install with this setup works fine again. So, only > thing I can think of is that something is not getting cleared > in the kickstart process on the drives that is confusing GRUB as it > starts to boot. I tried adding all the disk clearing options to the > kickstart file but it has not made a difference. Any ideas? > > kickstart partition section: > ---------------------------- > bootloader --location=mbr > clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb --initlabel > zerombr yes > part raid.13 --size=100 --ondisk=sda > part raid.14 --size=100 --ondisk=sdb > part raid.17 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sdb > part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda > raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.13 raid.14 > raid pv.18 --fstype "physical volume (LVM)" --level=RAID1 raid.16 raid.17 > volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.18 > logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2016 > logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol04 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 > logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 > logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 > logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=5024 > > > > TIA, > > Lance > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list From cpattullo at parasun.com Fri Oct 13 18:20:14 2006 From: cpattullo at parasun.com (Chris Pattullo) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:20:14 -0700 Subject: Problem with reading kickstart file from second dvdrom drive In-Reply-To: <20061013074037.115E4733DD@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20061013074037.115E4733DD@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <1160763614.27888.146.camel@cap.softeng.parasun.net> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 03:40 -0400, Pat wrote: > Details: > I require the user to type "installme" at the install > menu to follow my kickstart file. The relevant lines > from isolinux.cfg are: > > label installme > kernel vmlinuz > append ks=cdrom:/my.cfg initrd=initrd.img > ramdisk_size=8192 At first look I would say your problem is with 'ks=cdrom...'. If you can get a look at what the system considers cdrom I think you'll find it's probably your first drive. Which would explain why when the DVD drive is the only one present everything works. If you can find a way to specify the DVD drive specifically by finding out what device Linux considers it to be and substituting that for 'cdrom' you may be able to get it to work. This definitely seems to be a kernel-options issue though so if you focus your efforts there you may be able to find a solution somehow. Good luck. Chris -- Chris Pattullo Developer, Software Engineering ParaSun Technologies Inc. PGP public key @ 0x95A4A710 ParaSun Root Cert @ This e-mail may contain confidential and proprietary material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete all copies. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any other person is strictly prohibited. From gurudatta at sonoasystems.com Mon Oct 16 08:38:15 2006 From: gurudatta at sonoasystems.com (gurudatta) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:08:15 +0530 Subject: kickstart Message-ID: <1160987895.32317.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi , Need help in creating the bootble cd for kickstart with sata with networkcard brodcom 5700 driver in fedeora core 3.0... Regards Gurudatta N.R From error27 at gmail.com Mon Oct 16 08:47:41 2006 From: error27 at gmail.com (Dan Carpenter) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:47:41 -0700 Subject: kickstart In-Reply-To: <1160987895.32317.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1160987895.32317.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: You need a driver disk. Use "linux dd" to install. Plus there are a bunch of sata drivers so you'd have to be more specific. Why are you installing fc3 instead of fc5? regards, dan carpenter On 10/16/06, gurudatta wrote: > Hi , > > Need help in creating the bootble cd for kickstart with sata with > networkcard brodcom 5700 driver in fedeora core 3.0... > > > Regards > Gurudatta N.R > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > From mdehaan at redhat.com Tue Oct 17 16:36:12 2006 From: mdehaan at redhat.com (Michael DeHaan) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:36:12 -0400 Subject: Thoughts on kickstart provisioning -- call for input Message-ID: <4535067C.2050702@redhat.com> A while back I wrote about Cobbler, a provisioning tool I've written to help with setting up provisioning infrastructure (PXE, Xen, running systems, etc). Cobbler is designed to eliminate the need to understand things like PXE, and just allow the admin to concentrate on what they want to provision. Cobbler is an upgrade over system-config-netboot because it checks for prerequisites, handles things other than PXE, and has some support for kickstart templating and dhcpd.conf management. Also, rather than just managing the files in /tftpboot, it works in terms of profiles -- allowing manipulation of kernel parameters, kickstarts, and so forth, from human readable config files that maintain a hierarchical relationship between distributions, profiles, and systems. Properties are inherited down the chain, making changes to a wide array of systems as easy as changing the profile. Relatively new site here: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com Lately I've added support to easily create a full provisioning infrastructure from an rsync mirror, complete with kickstart files set to point to the correct locations in the tree. That seemed to be a good point to bring up Cobbler again with kickstart-list as I figured many folks would have ideas on how these ideas could be expanded. (One particular idea is including the SSH key in the definition of the system, to preserve the SSH key across reprovisioning). Example of importing a rsync mirror to build a provisioning environment: (Note: this feature is only available in the upstream code in the public mercurial repository, and is not yet out in FC via "yum install cobbler"). cobbler import --mirror=rsync://distro.ibiblio.org/fedora-linux-core/ --mirror-name=fedora_core That command creates profiles for full kickstarting of FC-1 through FC-5 and so forth. Multiple repositories can be imported, so other distributions can exist in the cobbler configuration alongside Fedora (like RHEL). Shell scripts are created to keep each of the local mirrors up to date in terms of managing the kickstart tree. Assigning a specific machine to boot a specific profile looks like: cobbler system add --name= --profile= Cobbler can also optionally generate dhcpd.conf files now as well -- so cobbler metadata can be used to track MAC-to-IP relationships. So, with a couple of commands, it's relatively easy to build a full provisioning infrastructure from scratch for multiple distributions. Anyhow, I thought I'd share the new URL and if anyone would like to give any feedback, or would otherwise like to pound on it and or submit any ideas/bugs/thoughts, I'd be glad to hear them. These features are relatively new, so there will likely be a few bugs here and there, but getting users to try things out helps a lot. Feedback to: et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com. Thanks, Michael DeHaan From mdehaan at redhat.com Tue Oct 17 22:15:56 2006 From: mdehaan at redhat.com (Michael DeHaan) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:15:56 -0400 Subject: Thoughts on kickstart provisioning -- call for input In-Reply-To: <4535067C.2050702@redhat.com> References: <4535067C.2050702@redhat.com> Message-ID: <4535561C.3010409@redhat.com> Michael DeHaan wrote: > A while back I wrote about Cobbler, a provisioning tool I've written > to help with setting up provisioning infrastructure (PXE, Xen, running > systems, etc). Cobbler is designed to eliminate the need to > understand things like PXE, and just allow the admin to concentrate on > what they want to provision. > > Cobbler is an upgrade over system-config-netboot because it checks for > prerequisites, handles things other than PXE, and has some support for > kickstart templating and dhcpd.conf management. > > Also, rather than just managing the files in /tftpboot, it works in > terms of profiles -- allowing manipulation of kernel parameters, > kickstarts, and so forth, from human readable config files that > maintain a hierarchical relationship between distributions, profiles, > and systems. Properties are inherited down the chain, making changes > to a wide array of systems as easy as changing the profile. > > Relatively new site here: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com > --SNIP-- Thanks to suggestions from kickstart-list readers, I've made cobbler-0.2.7 build and install cleanly on RHEL4 (before it had a taste for a few libraries that were mainly in Fedora, and I've removed those). So if you've tried cobbler before and couldn't use it because of RHEL4 installation issues, please check out 0.2.7. Thanks, Michael From philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com Thu Oct 26 19:25:01 2006 From: philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com (Philip Prindeville) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:25:01 -0600 Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) Message-ID: <45410B8D.7060508@redfish-solutions.com> [previously asked on anaconda-devel without seeing a response...] I may have asked this question before, but I don't remember seeing an answer that I grokked. Maybe I didn't ask the question correctly. My question is this: Suppose we have an install disk with a repo on it that specifies the following package sets (hypothetically) @SYSTEM = sbin sbin-utils sbin-diags devices core modsupport @DEVEL-BASE = gcc bin-utils gdb gprof gld ... I'd like to be able to come up with a compact notation for expressing what is on an installed system using the package sets with additions/ deletions. For example, suppose the running system has: ... sbin sbin-utils sbin-diags devices core gcc bin-utils gdb gprof gld gas ... then this could be represented as: @SYSTEM -modsupport @DEVEL-BASE +gas rather than just the complete list of packages (i.e. it may be more compact to say "all of SYSTEM except modsupport", rather than listing out all the individual components of that set). Why? I suspect that there might have been some package sets installed on an FC3 server that are no longer necessary, or that the composition of certain package sets has changed in FC5, so that if (for instance) gthumb has been replaced by eog in a certain package set, that when I install the package set it comes with the default packages for that distro. It also would be useful to know what had been removed from certain package sets (i.e. why modsupport was removed from the SYSTEM set). Is there an easy way to compute this? An easy way to do this might be to take an inventory of a system via "rpm -qa", and then parse comps.xml and see if each set has at least 2/3rds of its constituent elements present. If it does, then output the set name with a subtractive list of absence elements. Otherwise, list the elements individually (or simply skip them all together, and list them along with all remaining elements not in a set when all of the sets have been tested). Make sense? Are there tools to do this or that can be easily modified to do this? Thanks, -Philip From James.Oden at tekelec.com Thu Oct 26 19:41:32 2006 From: James.Oden at tekelec.com (Oden, James) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:32 -0500 Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) Message-ID: <58292FA6B3EEFD49AEDAF6597E21E71704811081@DCEVS2.tekelec.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Philip Prindeville > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:25 PM > To: kickstart-list at redhat.com > Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) > > [previously asked on anaconda-devel without seeing a response...] > > I may have asked this question before, but I don't remember seeing > an answer that I grokked. Maybe I didn't ask the question correctly. > > My question is this: > > Suppose we have an install disk with a repo on it that specifies the > following package sets (hypothetically) > > @SYSTEM = sbin sbin-utils sbin-diags devices core modsupport > @DEVEL-BASE = gcc bin-utils gdb gprof gld > ... > > I'd like to be able to come up with a compact notation for expressing > what is on an installed system using the package sets with additions/ > deletions. For example, suppose the running system has: It does not exist, that is why no one answered (at least to my knowledge). What your looking for is a way of representing sets of packages/components and then seeing how other sets of packages/components compare to them. Perl or Python would be a good starting place. Good Luck...james From philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com Fri Oct 27 00:08:43 2006 From: philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com (Philip Prindeville) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:08:43 -0600 Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) In-Reply-To: <58292FA6B3EEFD49AEDAF6597E21E71704811081@DCEVS2.tekelec.com> References: <58292FA6B3EEFD49AEDAF6597E21E71704811081@DCEVS2.tekelec.com> Message-ID: <45414E0B.3060606@redfish-solutions.com> Oden, James wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list- >>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Philip Prindeville >>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:25 PM >>To: kickstart-list at redhat.com >>Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) >> >>[previously asked on anaconda-devel without seeing a response...] >> >>I may have asked this question before, but I don't remember seeing >>an answer that I grokked. Maybe I didn't ask the question correctly. >> >>My question is this: >> >>Suppose we have an install disk with a repo on it that specifies the >>following package sets (hypothetically) >> >>@SYSTEM = sbin sbin-utils sbin-diags devices core modsupport >>@DEVEL-BASE = gcc bin-utils gdb gprof gld >>... >> >>I'd like to be able to come up with a compact notation for expressing >>what is on an installed system using the package sets with additions/ >>deletions. For example, suppose the running system has: >> >> >It does not exist, that is why no one answered (at least to my >knowledge). > >What your looking for is a way of representing sets of >packages/components and then seeing how other sets of >packages/components compare to them. Perl or Python would be a good >starting place. > >Good Luck...james > > Ok, understood. Well, the code to read the comps.xml file and stick it into a reasonably meaningful datastructure must exist at least, right? I'll dig around the Anaconda and Kickstart sources when I'm back in front of a development machine... hopefully there'll be something that can be reused. -Philip From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Oct 24 21:53:04 2006 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:53:04 -0400 Subject: New Project: pungi - A Fedora release composing tool Message-ID: <200610241753.07447.jkeating@redhat.com> I have started a new project, by the name of Pungi. This project aims to be a tool to compose Fedora releases. The goals include simplicity of both code and interface. I hope it will be a candidate for the Fedora Project's official tool to create user specific composes of Fedora comprising of both Core and Extras packages (or just Fedora packages once things merge) as well as the tool to compose the official Fedora Project spin of Fedora. It should prove useful to anybody creating a Fedora based distribution as well. The project is GPLv2 licensed. How it (I hope) works: A package list is fed into Pungi, either by comps or some other means. A set of yum repos to find packages in are also fed in. Pungi will search for matching packages in the set of repos and add the package to the download list. The download lost is depclosed (somewhat different than depsolved, no local rpmdb involved), all the deps that are pulled in are depclosed, etc... The list of packages is then downloaded into a configured cache dir and hardlinked into an arch specific dir within a configured destination dir. Then anaconda provided tools such as buildinstall, pkgorder, and splittree are ran on the directory of packages turning it into an installable tree and splitting packages into CD iso sized sets. Mkisofs would be used to create teh CD isos and DVD iso. These are the basic steps. The tool could further be extended to run some simple tree sanity to ensure the compose completed correctly, or other post processing type things. How to help: The code for this project lives in a public mercurial repository: hg clone http://linux.duke.edu/projects/pungi pungi Write access is via ssh and can be given upon (validated) request. Discussion of the project will make use of the fedora-buildsys-list at redhat.com mailing list. There are no web pages (other than the hg-web interface at the above URL) currently. The source includes information about design and some files for testing functionality. Since this is my first 'from scratch' python project, I welcome input not only on code content but code design, project layout, etc.. Also, even though I work for Red Hat, this is not so much a Red Hat software project. I'm developing this in the community space, a lot on my own time. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From James.Oden at tekelec.com Fri Oct 27 13:10:55 2006 From: James.Oden at tekelec.com (Oden, James) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:10:55 -0500 Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) Message-ID: <58292FA6B3EEFD49AEDAF6597E21E717048113AA@DCEVS2.tekelec.com> > > Ok, understood. > > Well, the code to read the comps.xml file and stick it into a reasonably > meaningful datastructure must exist at least, right? > There is something that parses the comps.xml. Go to the anaconda web page: http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html The problem is what you want is something that basically performs set operations on the components, and looks at a list of packages and deteremines what components best fit that list of packages which the library does not provide. The latter may not be too hard starting with the existing parser. Just off the top of my head: - parse with the existing library. - Walk through the packages and each component and build a dictionary Whose key is package name and value is component name. - Now armed with this dictionary go through you list of packages, and see what components are used. - When you find a component is used keep a counter of how many packages have been used by this component. That would give you just in raw form which components are used and the raw information to at the end do a final pass and apply some heuristic to pick which components have been added to or subtracted from. For example if you have less than 50% utilization of a component then throw that component away and say the packages were added to it (this is one possible heuristic). This is of course a real rough sketch of an algorithm. YMMV. > I'll dig around the Anaconda and Kickstart sources when I'm back in > front of a development machine... hopefully there'll be something that > can be reused. Unfortunately there are not a lot of higher level distribution build and management tools out there (there are some, but there just not at the level of management you are looking for), so your going into AFICT uncharted territory. Seriously, good luck...james From philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com Fri Oct 27 23:44:41 2006 From: philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com (Philip Prindeville) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:44:41 -0600 Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) In-Reply-To: <58292FA6B3EEFD49AEDAF6597E21E717048113AA@DCEVS2.tekelec.com> References: <58292FA6B3EEFD49AEDAF6597E21E717048113AA@DCEVS2.tekelec.com> Message-ID: <454299E9.1060709@redfish-solutions.com> Oden, James wrote: > > >>Ok, understood. >> >>Well, the code to read the comps.xml file and stick it into a >> >> >reasonably > > >>meaningful datastructure must exist at least, right? >> >> >> >There is something that parses the comps.xml. Go to the anaconda web >page: > > http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html > > Ok, thanks. Jeremy: minor comment... it would be more useful to see real excerpts from a production version of the file, rather than hypothetical sample groups, etc. An example of using the "requires" attribute (perhaps more than once) on a package, for instance, would be handy. I guess I'm going to have to learn Pythong if I want to use rhpl.comps... too bad there isn't a Perl equivalent. >The problem is what you want is something that basically performs set >operations on the components, and looks at a list of packages and >deteremines what components best fit that list of packages which the >library does not provide. The latter may not be too hard starting with >the existing parser. Just off the top of my head: > > - parse with the existing library. > - Walk through the packages and each component and build a dictionary > > Whose key is package name and value is component name. > - Now armed with this dictionary go through you list of packages, and >see > what components are used. > - When you find a component is used keep a counter of how many >packages > have been used by this component. > >That would give you just in raw form which components are used and the >raw information to at the end do a final pass and apply some heuristic >to pick which components have been added to or subtracted from. For >example if you have less than 50% utilization of a component then throw >that component away and say the packages were added to it (this is one >possible heuristic). > >This is of course a real rough sketch of an algorithm. YMMV. > > Sounds about what I came up with. -Philip > > > >>I'll dig around the Anaconda and Kickstart sources when I'm back in >>front of a development machine... hopefully there'll be something >> >> >that > > >>can be reused. >> >> >Unfortunately there are not a lot of higher level distribution build and >management tools out there (there are some, but there just not at the >level of management you are looking for), so your going into AFICT >uncharted territory. > >Seriously, good luck...james > >_______________________________________________ >Kickstart-list mailing list >Kickstart-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > From ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk Sat Oct 28 18:22:44 2006 From: ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk (Ben Fitzgerald) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:22:44 +0100 Subject: installing rhel on a logical volume Message-ID: <20061028182244.GD22019@bfitzgerald.co.uk> Hi, Is there a way I can install rhel on the fly (i.e. to an existing directory without rebooting), like debootstrap can be used for installing debian? I've seen references to --rootpath online but no firm evidence that this works. Thanks, Ben. -- Registered Linux user number 339435 From bigchoo at gmail.com Tue Oct 31 03:43:13 2006 From: bigchoo at gmail.com (Boonchu Ngampairoijpibul) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:43:13 -0800 Subject: question about kickstart Message-ID: <69893db60610301943t7cc92f2fn1b05ae9e6fe8acf@mail.gmail.com> Greeting! I try to use network Kickstart to re-install RHEL 4 update 3 on target machine HP DL 585 G1. I encounter a problem with my network. I try with following parameters below on boot prompt to assign static IP. It does not work so far. Cicso switch is our network equipment. Kickstart server and client also reside the same subnet. I also configure Cisco switch to auto/auto and STP port fast enabled. Many changes seems not help me to get IP assigned. I also use PXE boot (F12) to boot from my DHCP server. It also fail. I just suspect to broadcom NIC card. NIC might not initialize properly and fail to reach the network. If I use CD to install from local machine, it comes up ok with IP and reachable to network. Can anyone have a pointer to my problem? boot: linux ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX gateway= xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx dns=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ksdevice=FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ks= http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ks/host01 initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 splash=silent selinux=0 npfb boot: ip=XXX.XXX.XX.XX netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX gateway=XXX.XX.XX.X dns= XX.XXXX.XX.X ksdevice=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ks=file:/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.imgramdisk_size=10000 splash=silent selinux=0 elevator=cfq text showopts linksleep=120 eth0_ethtool="speed=100 autoneg=off duplex=full delay_link=1" nofb psc[root at srv073 root]# lspci | grep -i broadcom 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 02:06.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) -boonchu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is all you should need: boot: linux linux ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ks=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ks/host01 eth0_ethtool="speed=1000 autoneg=on duplex=full" initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ksdevice=eth0 The above of course assumes you are building off eth0. ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Boonchu Ngampairoijpibul Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:43 PM To: kickstart-list at redhat.com Subject: question about kickstart Greeting! I try to use network Kickstart to re-install RHEL 4 update 3 on target machine HP DL 585 G1. I encounter a problem with my network. I try with following parameters below on boot prompt to assign static IP. It does not work so far. Cicso switch is our network equipment. Kickstart server and client also reside the same subnet. I also configure Cisco switch to auto/auto and STP port fast enabled. Many changes seems not help me to get IP assigned. I also use PXE boot (F12) to boot from my DHCP server. It also fail. I just suspect to broadcom NIC card. NIC might not initialize properly and fail to reach the network. If I use CD to install from local machine, it comes up ok with IP and reachable to network. Can anyone have a pointer to my problem? boot: linux ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX gateway=xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx dns=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ksdevice=FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ks=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ks/host01 initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 splash=silent selinux=0 npfb boot: ip=XXX.XXX.XX.XX netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX gateway=XXX.XX.XX.X dns=XX.XXXX.XX.X ksdevice=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ks=file:/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 splash=silent selinux=0 elevator=cfq text showopts linksleep=120 eth0_ethtool="speed=100 autoneg=off duplex=full delay_link=1" nofb psc[root at srv073 root]# lspci | grep -i broadcom 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 02:06.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) -boonchu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: