Mine was the same size, and it worked just fine. Did you add anything else to the initrd.img? You may need to take out the old ks.cfg files. What does df -h show on your initrd.img? Forrest > I did strip it. It came out to be: 718636 bytes. I think the > old one was > 644264 bytes. I was puzzled, since I didn't think it was that > much bigger, > but I still could not copy it to the initrd. I was under the > gun, so I did > not have time to investigate it. I resorted to the workaround about > putting the KS files in the initrd image, and using file:/... > > It still is bugging me though that it would not copy over????? > > thanks, > > --brett > > p.s. This is what I did to copy it over: > > - mkdir /mnt/boot > - mount -o loop -t msdos boot.img /mnt/boot > - gzip -dc /mnt/boot/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.ext2 > - mkdir /mnt/initrd > - mount -o loop /tmp/initrd.ext2 /mnt/initrd > - cp /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/anaconda-7.1/loader/loader > /mnt/initrd/sbin/ > - umount /mnt/initrd > - gzip -c /tmp/initrd.ext2 > /mnt/boot/initrd.img > > This is where I get the message: > gzip: stdout: No space left on device > > I also tried to gzip it up to a different directory, and then copy it > over, but it still would not work (when I tried the copy). > > Hummmmmm???????? > > > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:34:04 -0800 > "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Yeah. Once you build the loader, it is over 2 MB. You > have to strip > the > > loader: > > > > strip loader > > > > That should make it a manageable size. > > > > Forrest > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Brett Schwarz [mailto:brett_schwarz@xxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:17 AM > > > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: ks cdrom: > > > > > > > > > Actually, I would be interested to see that procedure to > add the new > > > loader patch. I tried to do it, but the loader executable was > > > larger than > > > the original, and I was getting "no space left on device" > > > errors when I > > > tried to copy the new loader to the initrd image. > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > --brett > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:52:37 -0800 > > > "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > I haven't tried it in 7.2 yet. Did you want this for 7.1 > > > or 7.2? The > > > fix I > > > > have is for 7.1. I haven't got around to testing it on > 7.2 yet. > > > Sometime > > > > this week... > > > > > > > > Forrest > > > > > > > > > That wasn't fixed in 7.2?? I thought that problem was around > > > > > since early > > > > > 7.1 ? If you could send those to me offline that > would be great. > > > > > *grumbles* > > > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > You need an updated loader to put in the initrd. I > can give you > > > > > > instructions or just send it to you off-list. > > > > > > > > > > > > Forrest > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to do this: > > > > > > > kernel vmlinuz > > > > > > > append ks=cdrom:/misc/kickstart/server-ks.cfg > > > > > > > initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount > > > > > > > > > > > > > > where on 7.1 and before I always put the server-ks.cfg in > > > > > tmp on the > > > > > > > initrd.img, but I'd like to maintain it outside of the > > > > > > > initrd.img. When > > > > > > > it boots it complains that it can't find > /tmp/ks.cfg. What > > > > > > > is it still > > > > > > > looking there and not where I told it ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
