Kickstart install troubles

[Tom Callahan]

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

And that you have the appropriate package sources defined in the kickstart?

Thanks,

Tom Callahan
TESSCO Technologies
(443)-506-6216
callahant at tessco.com

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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