Kickstarting to VM via ISO image

[Shabazian, Chip]

Have you looked at Revisor?  You should be able to spin your RHEL 5
install quickly and easily using Revisor:
http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/
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From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
gene.huft at wachovia.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:44 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Kickstarting to VM via ISO image



Kickstart Gurus, 

I have a fully contained ISO image of the original RHEL5.1 32-bit source
tree, along with some additional RPMs & a custom ks.cfg file.  The goal
is to totally automate the build to a VMware VM via mapping the ISO file
to a virtual CDROM.   

I have modified the default isolinux/isolinux.cfg file as follows: 

default xander 
prompt 1 
timeout 600 
display boot.msg 
F1 boot.msg 
F2 options.msg 
F3 general.msg 
F4 param.msg 
F5 rescue.msg 
label xander 
  kernel vmlinuz 
  append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg 
label text 
  kernel vmlinuz 
  append initrd=initrd.img text 
label ks 
  kernel vmlinuz 
  append ks initrd=initrd.img 
label local 
  localboot 1 
label memtest86 
  kernel memtest 
  append - 


In my kickstart file, I of cource specify "cdrom".  The ISO image will
boot the VM into RedHat's initial screen, but when hit return or let it
time out it, it complains that it cannot find the install media on any
cdrom.   

I also tried to put the kickstart file into the initrd.img by
uncompressing image, copying ks.cfg into it, modifying isolinux.cfg to: 

append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=file:/ks.cfg 

Then recompressed it, moved it into proper place & re-generated ISO
image. Again, the ISO will boot the VM to initial RH screen, but soon
there after get the "cd not found" error. 
Is this just a VMware thing?  My coworker has no trouble with SuSE
builds working....am I overlooking something simple? 

Thanks in advance. 

Gene 
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