SUMMARY: RE: KickStart Issue
Kovacs, Corey J.
cjk at techma.com
Wed Mar 21 12:09:13 UTC 2007
Just a note, there is no "probably linux messed up with the file format"
issue here. Any *NIX variant treats linefeeds differently than DOS based
utilites. What happens is DOS based utilites put different control characters
at the end of text lines than *NIX utilities do. For as long as it has been
this way, to expect a text file edited on a windows machine to appear as
expected on a *NIX machine is not even in the realm of reasonable.
Furthermore, since *NIX systems have been around much longer than DOS based
systems, I'd say that "probably Windows messed up with the file format"...
But thats just me :)
Aside from all that, I'm glad you were able to figure it out and get things
going. Have fun :)
Regards.
Corey Kovacs
Senior Systems Engineer
Technology Management Associates
703.279.6168 (B)
855-6168 (R)
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From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Abhijit Das
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:03 PM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: SUMMARY: RE: KickStart Issue
Thanks very much to Chip Shabazian (BofA) who advised me to put debug
statements like sleep and echo and run the commands manually and check the
stages. The actual problem was that I copied the file from a windows machine
and probably linux messed up with the file format. I did a dos2unix on the
file and was able to get past the errors below.
Thanks
- Abhijit Das
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From: Abhijit Das
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:23 AM
To: 'kickstart-list at redhat.com'
Cc: Abhijit Das
Subject: KickStart Issue
Dear Gurus
I need a help here. I have create a RHEL4ASU4 32bit source server and
configured dhcp/nfs/kickstart on it. I am also using the initrd.img and
vmlinuz from the first CD to pxe boot the destination machines. I use the
pxelinux concept of kickstarting. Here is my default file
LABEL pxe
MENU LABEL pxe
kernel vmlinuz-pxe
append ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 load_ramdisk=1
initrd=initrd-pxe.img network
ks=nfs:192.168.203.180:/kickstart/rhelas4u4/i386/kickstart.cfg
As you see, I am passing the kickstart parameters via additional boot loader
parameters.
/kickstart/rhelas4u4/i386 contains the entire distribution of RHEL4ASU4
Now am using a kickstart configuration file (client's file) wherein he calls
many post install and pre install scripts. I get the following error :-
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory : '/tmp/xxxxxx'
This directory is mentioned in the %pre script to be created. But looks like
it is unable to.
Before that I get bunch of File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstary.py" , line
numbers messages but no errors on that.
Would appreciate your help and direction regards this
Thanks
- Abhijit Das
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