Kickstarting to VM via ISO image

[gene.huft at wachovia.com]

I got this problem solved - I hadn't realized the .discinfo file didn't 
get copied off media during my rsync ..anyway, I restored it & it makes it 
through the install.

Now, however, it will not execute the %post section - in which I call 
another script that I try to copy off from a directory on virtual CDROM 
(ISO) that I'm building from...  my question is:  during %post, how is the 
cdrom mounted, another words, do I have to  mount the cdrom in the script 
something like mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /media ?  Or do I use a 
%post --chroot in some fashion? 

Gene L. Huft
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Gene Huft/IT/WACH 
03/05/2008 02:43 PM

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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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