Kickstart install troubles
Chris St. Pierre
stpierre at NebrWesleyan.edu
Wed Jan 11 16:36:12 UTC 2006
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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