Unable to eject boot cd during kickstart install
Peter Schwenk
schwenk at math.udel.edu
Thu Feb 14 14:25:06 UTC 2008
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.
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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> Cheers
> John
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