Unable to eject boot cd during kickstart install
Gary Thomas
gary at mlbassoc.com
Thu Feb 14 14:34:17 UTC 2008
Peter Schwenk wrote:
> I, the OP, am in fact doing a network install. I get the ball rolling
> with the CD. I never tried Fedora 7, but Fedoras 6 and prior didn't
> lock the CD in the drive during the network install. I am reluctant to
> start killing processes during the install just so I can remove my CD as
> dwight at supercomputer.org suggested. I'm booting from the Rescue CD
> to do my installs, and one thing I noticed is that a message box pops up
> indicating that the install found local install media. This message
> hadn't appeared with the earlier Fedoras. I'll try to make a bare-bones
> boot CD somehow with no install files to see if that helps keep the CD
> from being locked in.
If you're doing a pure network install, then don't use the rescue disk :-)
Boot from 'boot.iso' (found in the main distribution). Then you can
select a network install (using kickstart or manually) and the CD can
be ejected once the system starts (it only contains the kernel and initial
ram disk)
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:50 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>> dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
>>> It sounds like there's some process left around which is keeping the
>>> device open. That would be the first thing I'd check. If nothing is
>>> obvious from a ps(1), then you'll have to dig deeper.
>>
>> I'm going to take this to the Anaconda list, because it illustrates
>> something that's been on my mind for a while.
>>
>> When I boot CD to net install (which I suppose the OP is doing coz
>> otherwise it doesn;t make sense to head for other parts, media in
>> hand), I'd like it to spit the CD out as soon as it's not required.
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