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Thanks Rob, a USB CD drive is another
option.
However, I have now managed to get my install
kickstarting from a single floppy!!
The problem I was having was in specifying the
device driver to use.
I was trying to use the line: 'device ethernet
e100' in my ks.cfg file (to use the e100 driver)
This would cause the installation to abort
with this error message: "install exited abnormally --
received signal 11"
The line I had to use to make it work was: 'device
eth e100 --opts=0'. The 'opts' part is important - I don't know exactly what it
does, but without it the installation still breaks!
FYI, here's my dummies guide to getting the
appropriate network drivers onto my single boot disk:
Get a copy of bootdisk.img and drvnet.img for RedHat9.0 from the images directory of the first CD. Insert a floppy disk. Copy the drivers disk image onto a floppy disk: dd if=drvnet.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=72k Mount the floppy disk to a partition, and copy all of the files off it into a directory on the hard drive, then unmount the disk again: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mkdir /root/rh9drivers cp /mnt/floppy/* /root/rh9drivers umount /mnt/floppy In the directory, unpack the ?modules.cgz? file containing the drivers. This will create a sub-directory called 2.4.20-8BOOT: cd /root/rh9drivers zcat modules.cgz | cpio ?id, this will create a new directory: 2.4.20-8BOOT.
Now copy the boot disk image onto your floppy disk: dd if=bootdisk.img of=/mnt/floppy bs=72k Mount the disk to a partition and copy the initrd image into a directory on the hard drive: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mkdir /root/rh9boot cp /mnt/floppy/initrd.img
/root/rh9boot/initrd.data.gz Unzip the initrd image and mount it onto a partition: cd /root/rh9boot gunzip initrd.data.gz mkdir /mnt/image mount ?o loop initrd.data /mnt/image Copy the ?modules.cgz? file containing the drivers onto the hard drive and unpack it: cp /mnt/image/modules/modules.cgz
/root/rh9boot zcat modules.cgz | cpio ?id, creates a new directory
2.4.20-8BOOT
Now
you can remove any drivers from the boot disk that you don't need, and copy any
network drivers you do need. I removed the scsi and usb drivers, and added
e100 and e1000 drivers. cd 2.4.20-8BOOT rm scsi_mod.o, usb-storage.o, sr_mod.o and
sd_mod.o cp /root/rh9drivers/2.4.20-8BOOT/e100*
/root/rh9boot/2.4.20-8BOOT Remove the old copy of the modules file and create a new one: rm /root/rh9boot/modules.cgz find /root/rh9boot/2.4.20-8BOOT/*.* | cpio ?o -?format=crc | gzip ?9
> /root/rh9boot/modules.cgz Fill the free space on the mounted initrd image with 0?s (this makes it compress much more efficiently), then remove the old ?modules.cgz? file, and replace it with the new one: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/image/modules/modules.cgz
bs=1 rm /mnt/images/modules/modules.cgz cp /root/rh9boot/modules.cgz
/mnt/image/modules/modules.cgz Put information about the e100 and e1000 drivers into the module-info file: vi /root/rh9drivers/modinfo Highlight the section for e100 and e100 and copy
it. Exit vi vi /mnt/image/modules/module-info Paste the e100 and e100 lines at the end of the file. Delete the
files pertaining to the usb-storage driver. Save and exit. Copy all lines from /root/rh9drivers/pcitable describing e100 or e1000 into /mnt/image/modules/pcitable ? I?m not sure which lines are applicable to the cards we?ll be using so just copy them all. Delete the lines about Sound Fusion Audio Accelerator and AMI Megaraid from /mnt/image/modules/pcitable. Remove the lines about scsi_mod, sd_mod and sr_mod from /mnt/image/modules/modules.dep. Unmount the image, rezip it, clear free space on the floppy disk and copy the new initrd image onto it: umount /mnt/image gzip ?9 /root/rh9boot/initrd.data dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/floppy/initrd.img
bs=1 rm /mnt/floppy/initrd.img cp /root/rh9boot/initrd.data.gz
/mnt/floppy/initrd.img umount /mnt/floppy
And that was my finished floppy disk.
And here's my completed kickstart file. It doesn't do anything clever at the moment, just a basic install, but it works!
install lang
en_US.UTF-8 langsupport
--default en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 keyboard
uk mouse
genericps/2 --device psaux --emulthree skipx device
eth e100 --opts=0 network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip <my_ip> --netmask <my_netmask> --gateway <my_gateway> --nameserver <my_dns> --hostname <my_hostname> nfs --server <my_nfsserver> --dir <my_nfsdirectory> rootpw --iscrypted <encrypted_password> firewall
--disabled authconfig
--enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone
Europe/London bootloader
--location=mbr #
The following is the partition information you requested #
Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed #
here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is #
not guaranteed to work clearpart
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swap --size=512 part
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