Brett: You might be talking about a few posts I made in Feb... https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/private/kickstart-list/2003-February/003835.html Incidentally, I liked your article in the new Linux Journal. Do you have a link to the referenced scripts that are mentioned in the article (getGroupPkgs.py, syncRpms.py) ? Looks like the references section for your article is missing... I've had no problems making a bootable rh8 cd using the isolinux example in Luigi's Burning a Redhat CD HOWTO, see the first example in section 5.3.3.7 in: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/RedHat-CD-HOWTO.html#BURN-CD -- ---------- Vince.Skahan@xxxxxxxxxx --------- Connexion by Boeing - Cabin Network -----Original Message----- From: Brett Schwarz [mailto:brett_schwarz@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:04 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Hands off install from CDROM Hummm, someone asked a very similar question just recently...maybe it was on the anaconda list though... --- "T.D. Brace" <ted@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to do a hands off install from cdrom for > RH8. What i've done so far: > > 1. copy all 3 cds to a directory on my hd. > 2. trim out the packages I don't need. > 3. rebuilt the hdlist. You may need to modify comps.xml, depending on exactly how you are doing your package selection, and if you removed any packages from the Core and Base groups. This error would show up later though (mostly likely you would get a traceback). > 4. created my kickstart file including delete all > partitions and create new ones. > 5. mounted the dosutils/autoboot/initrd image, and > copy my ks.cfg into the /tmp directory > on the image. Unmount it. First of all, I don't think this is the image that you want to modify. I am not at my computer right now to check, but I think there is an image in the isolinux directory now. If there isn't then you would need to use the image in the boot directory (i.e. boot.img). However, you can now put the kickstart file on your CD. Previous RH releases had a bug where you could not do this, but with 8.0, you can put it on the CD directory. > 6. Edit the /isolinux/isolinux.cfg, and set ks=file. If you put it on the CD directly, then use ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg Where /ks.cfg is the location of your kickstart file on the CD filesystem (it's in the root directory of the CD in this example). > 7. Made an ISO image with: > mkisofs -o ../linux.iso -V 'RH Install' \ > -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c > isolinux/boot.cat \ > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 > -boot-info-table . > 8. Burn the cd with: > cdrecord -v speed=24 dev=0,0,0 linux.iso > I tried the new isolinux boot mechanism, but I could not get it to work (although I didn't try very hard...time limits). I just used the old mechanism, and it worked fine for me, although I admit the new way (isolinux) is easier to work with. --brett p.s. this is off the top of my head, since I can't check my notes on my home computer ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
