Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
I would like to use kickstart only to select the same packages on all
machines. (partitions, networking, etc may be different between them).
This is to do a 7.3 install on an existing 7.2 system (usually reformat
/ and /boot, keep existing /home)
I tried this by taking an anaconda-ks.cfg and paring it down, but it
didn't work. I cut it down to just:
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# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
interactive
%packages
<package list deleted to save space>
%post
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and it still didn't work. It failed after mouse selection with the
message:
"Could not allocate requested partitions
Parition failed: Could not allocate partition as primary partition
Press OK to reboot"
No where in any of the ks.cfg files I used was there any information
about requested partitions. I expected to be prompted for that. As the
machines aren't all partitioned the same way, I would like to be
prompted for that. I am glad it failed to repartition the drive, since
that isn't what I wanted it to do.
The same installation went fine without using kickstart, but I would
like to make the next 5 machines the same.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bruce
I do something similar to this. I am prompted for the partition info,
root password and XWindows setup. Try removing interactive to see if
that helps. Make sure that you are using the proper ks.cfg file.
Forrest
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