On 14 Feb 2001 09:29:08 -0500, jason bruce wrote: > I am having trouble getting kickstart to work with a boot disk under Redhat > 7.0. > > 1. used mkbootdisk to create a boot disk > 2. used cp to copy ks.cfg to the root directory of /dev/fd0 > (note at this point that the floppy was not vfat as the Redhat 7 manual says > it should be. I could not read it under win95) > 3. verifed rights and ownership of ks.cfg (root:root 644) > 4. rebooted machine > 5. typed "linux ks=floppy" at the boot prompt. > > The machine already has Redhat installed, but lilocheck was not in the > ks.cfg, so this should not matter. Anyway, the machine boots as though > there was no ks.cfg on /dev/fd0. > > Any ideas? > bootdisk != installer disk you'll need the bootnet.img from the redhat 7 tree. get that - put it on the floppy - cp the ks.cfg to it. wa-la. you're ready to go. -sv
