Hi, I'm new to the list... I've looked in the archives and haven't seen anything covering my situation, so I hope this is the correct place to ask for help on it. I'm trying to create a floppy that will kickstart a 7.2 distribution. I did this by dd'ing bootnet.img from the 7.2 CD to a floppy, then modifying the syslinux.cfg to make 'ks' the default (and just to be on the safe side, in my case, only) option. I created a ks.cfg file using the ksconfig app and copied this to the root directory of the boot floppy. This all seems to work as is evidenced by the fact that changes I make to the ks.cfg do alter the results I see in the install process. However, the actual install does not work. Here is the ks.cfg I am using: #Generated by Kickstart Configurator lang en_US langsupport en_US keyboard us #mouse generic3ps/2 mouse none timezone --utc America/New_York rootpw --iscrypted $1$3iTÞÝ.zE$2k9ofwOl93MGNnLzFzp7S. reboot text interactive bootloader --useLilo --linear --location=mbr install url --url ftp://ftp.redhat.com/ clearpart --all --initlabel part / --fstype ext3 --size 500 part swap --size 2000 part /usr --fstype ext3 --size 2000 part /var --fstype ext3 --size 1000 part /home --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow #/part / --fstype ext3 -size 1 --grow #network --bootproto dhcp #network --bootproto static --ip 10.15.2.19 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway 10.15.2.1 --nameserver 10.15.2.56 --hostname temp.cyveillance.com network --bootproto static --ip 10.9.10.120 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway 10.9.4.1 --nameserver 10.16.1.31 --nameserver 198.6.1.3 --nameserver 198.6.1.4 --hostname DHCP-10-120.cyveillance.com auth --useshadow --enablemd5 firewall --high #Do not configure the X Window System skipx %packages @X Window System @Network Support @Messaging and Web Tools @NFS File Server @Windows File Server @Anonymous FTP Server @Web Server @Router / Firewall @DNS Name Server @Network Managed Workstation @Emacs @Utilities @Software Development @Kernel Development %pre echo PRE-INSTALLATION WOULD GO HERE %post echo POST-INSTALLATION WOULD GO HERE If I include the --hostname option to the network command I get this almost immediately on the main virtual terminal once the screen turns blue: install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 sending termination signals... done sending kill signals... done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc done /dev/pts done you may safely reboot your system I transcribed that from the screen since I cannot cut/paste it, so any errors in it are probably mine. Also, FWIW, it actually comes out looking as if it has only newlines with no carraige returns creating a pyramid effect. I lost that look in the transcription. Anyway, the second VT should have a bash shell if I'm not mistaken but apparently it doesn't get that far .... trying to switch to it fails (it just stays on whatever VT you're already on). The next VT has what I'm guessing is the output of loader, and it looks like so (again, transcribed by hand, hopefully accurately...): * 126784 kB are available * going to insmod cramfs.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod ide-cd.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod sd_mod.o (path is NULL) * looking for usb controllers * no usb controller found * probing for floppy devices * first non-detactched floppy is fd0 * system floppy device is fd0 * going to insmod fat.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod vfat.o (path is NULL) * kickstart file copied to /tmp/ks.cfg * probing buses * finished bus probing * found suggestion of pcnet32 * found pcnet32 device * found devices justProbe is 0 * going to insmod pcnet32.o (path is NULL) * kickstarting through device eth0 * netDev->dev.hostname = DHCP-10-120.cyveillance.com * nodns is 0 * setting ks specified hostname of DHCP-10-120.cyveillance.com The last VT has a normal kernal dmesg type of output, loading the ramdisk, initrd, mounting root, setting up the pcnet32 ethernet driver, etc. If it would be helpful to have a transcription let me know. Things to note: 1. Yes, I am running under VMware but i get the same results from the same disk booting directly on a machine only with the eepro drivers instead of the pcnet32 drivers and 2 gigs of ram instead of 128m). 2. Yes it looks like I'm trying to use a DHCP assigned address dynamically but it is one that is reserved for this purpose and is not in use. 3. If I do not set the hostname in the network command, it tries to find them, fails, and then does the same thing. The non-VMware machine I've tried this is a dual 700mhz VALinux box. Does anyone have any ideas what might be the problem, or, short of that, how I might go about getting more information on what anaconda or kickstart or whatever is doing right before it fails? It would be nice if there was a way to see the exact commands it was running on get a verbose log of things it was trying... I thought the interactive flag might help with this but it doesn't seem to affect anything at least insofar as I get. Thanks, - John
