Hi Phil, I've got more or less the same problem... The USB-stick is a bit too slow. The kickstart-file is searched on the device, but the device is not there (yet). Please see my patch at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212146>. Cheers, Niels On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:45 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > 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? > > If I get the kickstart from an http server all is well with the > kickstart file containing: > > harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
