RE: not quite happy with RH9 kickstart

Robert Denton <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:52:05 -0700

Title: Message

Tim, I am in a similar situation in that I am buying PC's (Shuttles, 
actually) that have neither CD drives nor Floppy drives.  However, I have a 
USB external CD rom that I boot the machines to with the first RH9 cd in 
it.  I just move the USB device from machine to machine as necessary, and I 
let the machines build themselves over http with a kickstart file.  I know 
that doesn't help you with your boot floppy, but I thought I'd throw it 
in.  R.

  -----Original Message-----
From: Tim Jones 
  [mailto:tim@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:08 
  AM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: not quite 
  happy with RH9 kickstart

  Hi,

  Thanks for the info on booting from a CD, I'll 
  try to get that working.

  Unfortunately, we are still living in the age of 
  the dinosaurs, and have a large number of systems without CD 
  drives!

  Basically, they are to be used as caching 
  'appliances' in schools, and so a CD drive was never necessary.

  At the moment, we have a simple build process, 
  where somebody connects a workstation to the network, puts in a floppy 
  disk, reboots and leaves it to install.

  I can try to get the workstations made with 
  a CD drive in the future, so that we can boot from CD, but for the moment 
  it would still be *really* helpful to be able to get RH9 to install from a 
  single floppy.

  Plus, I'm sure I'm most of the way there and it's 
  really bugging me that it prompts me for this one piece of 
  information!

  Any ideas?

  Thanks,

  Tim