Kickstart install troubles

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Tom Callahan wrote:

>Assuming you are issuing: "linux ks=cdrom???"

Yeah, that was it.  If I had read two further pages into the
documentation, I would've had the answer to my question.  Thanks for
your help.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University


>Thanks,
>
>Tom Callahan
>TESSCO Technologies
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>A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on the forehead get too noticeable.
>
>
>
>Chris St. Pierre wrote:
>
>>I'm trying my first kickstart install, and it's not going so well.  I
>>created a ks.cfg file, based on an anaconda-ks.cfg file that was
>>automatically created on install, created an iso image of the boot cd
>>with the ks.cfg in the top-level directory, and booted off it.  When I
>>do so, though, I just get the normal installation stuff -- it appears
>>to ignore the ks.cfg file.  I followed the instructions directly from
>>the Redhat website:
>>
>>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-CD
>>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-putkickstarthere.html
>>
>>Everything looks fine on the CD:
>>
>>~> ls -lAF /media/cdrecorder
>>total 5447
>>-r--r--r--  1 stpierre users    2048 2006-01-11 10:08 boot.cat
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users     292 2006-01-11 10:07 boot.msg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users     957 2006-01-11 10:07 general.msg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users 3773827 2006-01-11 10:07 initrd.img
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users    9856 2006-01-11 10:07 isolinux.bin
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 stpierre users     550 2006-01-11 10:07 isolinux.cfg*
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users    2800 2006-01-11 10:07 ks.cfg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users     730 2006-01-11 10:07 options.msg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users     869 2006-01-11 10:07 param.msg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users     468 2006-01-11 10:07 rescue.msg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users     549 2006-01-11 10:07 snake.msg
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users    6056 2006-01-11 10:07 splash.lss
>>-r--r--r--  1 stpierre users    2879 2006-01-11 10:08 TRANS.TBL
>>-rw-r--r--  1 stpierre users 1772857 2006-01-11 10:07 vmlinuz
>>
>>Any ideas?  Would a parse error in my ks.cfg cause this behavior?  If
>>so, is there any way to validate the ks.cfg file?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Chris St. Pierre
>>Unix Systems Administrator
>>Nebraska Wesleyan University
>>
>>  
>>
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