Unable to eject boot cd during kickstart install

[Peter Schwenk]

Thanks.  Right after I sent that email, I poked around on my Fedora 8  
DVD and found the very same boot.iso file.  I made a CD and tried it,  
and it works as advertised.  I used to use the first CD of the Fedora  
set for my boot disk, and it never was locked in there before.  The  
behavior of anaconda has changed, but I know now that I should have  
been using the boot.iso.

On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:

> 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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- Peter Schwenk
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- University of Delaware
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