On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:00:50AM -0400, Peter Schwenk wrote: > Hello: > > Let me start with some background to the problem. I'm performing > kickstart installations by booting the system with a CD made from the F10 > netinst ISO. My installation RPMs are stored on an NFS server. I've got > the updates repository being served up by an HTTP server. > > Now for the problem... With previous versions of Fedora (and other Red > Hat-related distros, like CentOS), I was able to push the eject button on > the CD drive DURING THE INSTALLATION and get my boot CD out of the > machine. This was handy because I could start the installation, get my CD > back and walk away from the machine. Now, with Fedora 10, I am unable to > get my CD out of the drive during the installation. It is a minor hassle > to have to come back later to retrieve my CD. Plus, if I want to > kickstart install multiple machines at once, I have to have many copies of > the boot CD. > > Setting up a PXE boot scenario is not a good solution because I do not > have control over the campus' DHCP service. > > Does anyone know how to eject a boot CD during a kickstart install? > Thanks in advance for your help. You can still eject the disc right after both the kernel and the initrd image load, while the kernel messages are starting to spill out. After that, I believe the second-stage image is loaded from the disc once it's detected. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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