Phil Meyer wrote:
Phil
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It is soooo close!
fdisk an appropriately sized thumb drive:
make partition 4 first as 13MB and bootable
make partition 1 as remainder and mkfs as vfat
Copy the iso(s) to partition 1 of the thumb drive.
I used pungi to build mine, but as long as the kernel in diskboot.img
supports usb-storage this method should work.
dd diskboot.img to partition 4 of the thumb drive (makes it look like a
bootable zip drive)
copy my custom kickstart to partition 1
example:
cp hammond.ks /media/disk
unmount /media/disk
I do this by simply right clicking the icon on my desktop and selecting
unmount.
boot from the thumb drive on test system
boot: linux text ks=hd:sda:/hammond.ks
<ALT>F3
INFO: getFileFromBlockDevice(sda1, /hammond.ks)
ERROR: failed to mount /dev/sda1: No such device or address
However,:
<ALT>F4
<6> sda: sda1 sda4
<5>sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
<7>usb-storage: device scan complete
Is this a timing issue? Any work-around?
It could be timing. The ks= looks a little odd to me, but I'm not
checking sources. ks=hd:sda1/hammond.ks looks more obvious to me.
However, I have in the past put the ks file into the initial ramdisk, so
that's what I would do.
You need to unpack the initial ramdisk using gzip and cpio, add the ks
file, repack the initial ramdisk using find, cpio and gzip. I think I've
described the process in more detail recently on this list.
If I get the kickstart from an http server all is well with the
kickstart file containing:
harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/
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