I am trying to do a remote installation of RH 7.2 using a ks.cfg file and an FTP server. I have made a boot floppy from the bootnet.img image and put my ks.cfg file on it. I have been successful in doing an installation by typing 'linux ks=floppy' at the boot prompt. This was all done to make sure that my ks.cfg file worked like I wanted it to. When I try to do a remote installation across the network, I get an error and am unable to complete the installation. First, some background. For the remote install, I am first putting a DOS image onto the harddrive of the remote computer and then copying over my ks.cfg file, as well as the initrid.img and vmlinuz files from the dosutils\autoboot directory on the RedHat CD and loadlin.exe from the dosutils directory. I then run 'c:\loadlin c:\vmlinuz initrd=c:\initrd.img ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg' This seems to be working, and I am not prompted for any user input. About halfway through the status bar for the post install configuratio! n, I get an error message: /usr/sbin/probe: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: cannot read file data: Error 21 It then continues loading the bootloader, and then says that the 'install exited abnormally -- received signall 11' and sends the termination signals and waits for a reboot. But it seems that everything is installed, because once you reboot the machine you have RH 7.2 loaded up, just like you wanted. The problem here is that the error is keeping the installation from automatically rebooting, even thought I have 'reboot' in the ks.cfg file. You have to manually go and reboot the machine. Since I can use the exact same ks.cfg file from the floppy successfully, I don't think it's to blame. Any ideas or help would be great. I've included most of the ks.cfg file below. # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. install lang en_US langsupport --default en_US en_US keyboard us url --url ftp://12.12.12.1/images mouse generic3ps/2 --device psaux xconfig --card "RIVA TNT2" --videoram 16384 --hsync 31.5 --vsync 50-61 --resolution 1024x768 --depth 16 --startxonboot network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --nameserver 0.0.0.0 rootpw --iscrypted <PASSWORD HERE> firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/Chicago bootloader # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work clearpart --all --drives=sda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=50 --ondisk=sda part / --fstype ext3 --size=1100 --grow --ondisk=sda part swap --size=512 --grow --maxsize=1024 --ondisk=sda reboot %packages @ Printing Support @ Classic X Window System @ X Window System @ GNOME @ Sound and Multimedia Support @ Network Support @ Dialup Support @ Messaging and Web Tools @ Workstation Common balsa rsync samba-common compat-libstdc++ mozilla-mail gaim SDL_image libesmtp magicdev w3c-libwww libpcap pan psgml SDL rp3 rhn_register-gnome redhat-config-network xawtv nmap-frontend htmlview up2date-gnome mozilla-psm smpeg samba-client ical licq xisdnload SDL_net licq-gnome pam_smb exmh netscape-communicator gnome-media SDL_mixer openssh-askpass-gnome tetex-xdvi xmms-gnome emacs-X11 telnet-server xpdf linuxconf ucd-snmp xmms openssh-askpass wine usbview netscape-common galeon gd gq %post /sbin/chkconfig telnet on reset /usr/sbin/useradd diags chfn -f 'Corporate Diagnostics' diags /usr/sbin/usermod -p <PASSWORD HERE> diags Mark
