Here is the situation - We have a custom RedHat 7.2 (thinned) that we currently kickstart over the network. We want to now do this using a CD-ROM. Our target platform doesn't support booting from a CD so we are booting from a floppy and have the custom RedHat and the ks.cfg file on the CD. When I created the CD I used the following commands mkisofs -l -R -r -T -v -V'xxx' -o xx.iso . cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 xx.iso Notice that I did not load the cdboot.img on to the CD since the CD doesn't need to be bootable. Here is the syslinux.cfg that is on my floppy default linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg prompt 0 timeout 600 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 vga=788 label ks kernel vmlinuz append ks initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 When this runs it accesses the CD drive but apparently doesn't read the ks.cfg file since it starts to prompt for setup parameters. When I move the ks.cfg file to the floppy (and of course change the syslinux.cfg) it works just file (up to a point which is another problem). Also, if I use an invalid file name, say ks=cdrom:/ksx.cfg, I get an error stateing that the file is not found, which is what you would expect. Second problem - If the ks.cfg file in on the floppy, everything works correctly until it tries to install our company specific rpms. The lines are as follows: echo ' Fixing LILO...' >> /dev/console rpm -i /mnt/source/gravRPMS/liloconf-1.0-grav1.noarch.rpm # Install JRE & gravmsg last due to # JRE RPM missing a package order... echo 'Installing Java Runtime Environment...' >> /dev/console rpm -i /mnt/source/gravRPMS/jre-1.3.1_02.i386.rpm I get open failures on the rpm files (File not found). I know the installer can read the CD since it installs linux onto the platform. I have verified that the files are there. I used the Alt-F2 window to verify that the /mnt/source is valid and the files are there. Does the installer use a different mount point? Could this problem be related to the first?? Any ideas???? Harry Smith Senior Software Engineer Graviton, Inc. 9820 Towne Centre Dr. San Diego, CA 92121 (858) 909-2185 FAX (858) 646-0775 E-Mail: HSmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx
