Yet another option is to insert the kickstart file into the initial ramdisk image, and tell syslinux to read it. The advantage is that it works automatically, and you don't have to type something at the SYSLINUX prompt. If you are doing a NFS install, you'll only need to insert one floppy into the machine your booting, instead of one floppy with the boot image and one floppy with the kickstart file. This is a plus if you have a lot of machines to load. That is, for a NFS boot, do something like (Warning: this should work, but this code is untested, YMMV, the usual caveats apply:) ----begin pseudo-code---- # Set up a CD-ROM hierarchy on an NFS server, by # copying the CD-ROM files from CD1 and CD2 to a disk. # Then cd < top level of the hierarchy > cd images cp bootnet.img /tmp cd /tmp mkdir bootnet initrdnet # Assuming your kernel supports the loopback driver: mount bootnet.img bootnet -o loop gunzip < bootnet/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.img mount initrd.img initrdnet -o loop # If you want to do an NFS install, you'll need to # configure your kickstart file to reference the # NFS server. Then... cp <your kickstart file> initrdnet/ umount initrdnet gzip < initrd.img > bootnet/initrd.img cd bootnet # edit syslinux.cfg, and add to the append line: # "ks=file:/ks.cfg console=ttyS0,9600n8" # # Suggestion: put this in a new stanza in the # syslinux.cfg file. cd /tmp umount bootnet cd <back to your cd-rom image hierarchy> cd images cp /tmp/bootnet.img bootnet.img ----end of pseudo-code---- You'll also have to copy the bootnet.img to a floppy. If someone knows a simpler way to do this, please post it to the list. --Seth Alford sethal@xxxxxxxxx --- Brock Organ <borgan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At the syslinux prompt is where you can add this: > > SYSLINUX: linux ks=<your option here> serial > > or alternatively > > SYSLINUX: linux ks=<your option here> > console=ttyS0,9600n8 > > to explicitly specify ttyS0 and 9600 speed ... > > brock > > .... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
