FC3 kickstart -> does not recognize cd

[John Summerfield]

Jason Kohles wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Mathew Rowley wrote:
> 
>> Im trying to create a FC3 kickstart DVD in FC6, yet, when I attempt to
>> boot the CD, anaconda loads and says 'The Fedora Core CD was not found
>> in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Fedora Core CD and  press
>> OK to retry.' I cant figure out what is going wrong... When I look in
>> the console i get a few errors...
>>
>> <3>FAT: Bogus number of reserved sectors
>> <6>VFS: Cant find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc
>> <4>VFS: Cant find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.
>> <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8
>>
>> I am attempting to boot this on a virtual machine. The only thing I  can
>> think is, since im using FC6, I have to use 'createrepo' instead of
>> 'genhdlist'... Will that create this error?  This is exactly how i
>> create the cd image.
>>
> The fact that you are building the CD on FC6 is irrelevant, to do an  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't think so, the CD/DVD image has to be built with the correct 
version of Anaconda, and that may require the FC3 level Python etc etc/




> install the FC3 version of anaconda is still going to require the  
> information that genhdlist gives you, which means you need to install  
> and run genhdlist.
> 
>> sudo cp nepenthes-ks.cfg FC3/isolinux/
>>
>> cd FC3
>> sudo createrepo -g Fedora/base/comps.xml `pwd`
>> cd ..
>> sudo mkisofs -o nepenthes-ossim.iso -V 'FC/3 i386' -b
>> isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot
>> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -r -R -T -J -joliet-long -l FC3
>>
>>
>> Can anyone see anything that I could be doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Well, you don't indicate what else you are putting on the CD, but you  
> could get this error if you left out the .discinfo file.
> 
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