RHEL 5.4 - kickstart from USB external DVD

[Mats Karlsson]

Roger, I don't wan't to be rude, but a search enginee like google will
provide you with the answers.

I have used this,
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html#N100D7
but that was 3 years ago and for CentOS.


Kind regards
Mats

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 19:44, Johnson, Roger <rjohnson at idirect.net> wrote:
>
>>From: Mats Karlsson [mailto:mats.o.karlsson at gmail.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:52 AM
>>To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>>Subject: Re: RHEL 5.4 - kickstart from USB external DVD
>
>>A workaround.
>
>>You can place the kickstart file ks.cfg inside the initrd.img located
>>in the cdrom. Then boot up the installer with command linux
>>ks=file:/ks.cfg That's how I'm going around that problem when I'm not
>>able to get the kickstart via http.
>
>
>>Kind regards
>>Mats
>
> Thanks, Mats.  That looks like it will work.  I haven't created a custom
> initrd.img as of yet so do you have some preferred site with
> instructions?  I'll feel very foolish if it's well-document in anything
> official (i.e., RedHat), but just thought I'd ask before consulting the
> Google... <grin>
>
> Also, anyone else who may have encountered this issue with a
> USB-connected DVD drive, please chime in.  Although Mats' workaround
> looks to do the trick, modifying initrd.img is more complicated to
> maintain.  Any bootloader option or other trick to force the kernel to
> load "usb-storage" before its checks for the location of the ks.cfg
> would be appreciated.  I tried appending "usbstorage", but to no avail.
> (Thought I might get lucky since there is a "nousbstorage" option...)
>
> Thanks,
> Roger
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