On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Robert Denton wrote: > Well, I would like to relate my experience on this for the benefit of all > newbies out there such as myself. Thanks to the speedy response of several > people I knew immediately that the problem was that I was inadvertently > including windows formatting characters at the end of the lines and this is > where the question marks were coming from. > > First I decided to ftp get the ks file from the windows ftp server and edit > it in vi and re-upload it. This did not work. The bad formatting was still > there. Next I decided to create an all new ks file on my RH9 box in vi, and > never open it or touch it with a windows editor, and upload it to the > windows based FTP server from which I was doing my remote installs. I was > certain this would work. Oddly it did not. The odd formatting was still > there after the kickstart installation ran. > > So then I decided to make my RH9 box a webserver (on a private IP) upload > the base and RPMS dirs to it and recreate a brand new ks.cfg in vi and > placed it in the webroot of the RH box. Finally this worked. The secret, as > it appears to this Linux newbie, is to never let it touch a windows machine > in any way. Create the kickstart file in Linux and keep it in Linux. I am > certain that some of the guys who answered my original query can shed some > better light on this but I thought I'd chip in my observations anyway. > There you have it. The secret is to learn your linux tools. vim _can_ do it: "set fileformat unix" tr can do it well enough for most purposes: tr -d '\r' <badversion >goodversion ftp can do it: asc -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
