The RH9 docs are really good and can be downloaded as PDFs. There is a whole section in the RH8 Reference Guide on this issue. I assume RH9 will be as big or bigger if it isn't in its own doc file (there are more 9 PDFs than 8). I suggest you check it out as well as ask questions here. RTFM, 'eh wot. :-) Hattie Rouge > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Skahan, Vince > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 6:16 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: does ramdisk_size matter ? > > > > Still confused. If I get the syntax wrong, future releases > will break my installation unless ramdisk_size is deprecated > totally for kickstarts so any answer is good enough. > > Let me ask it another way. > > What is the syntax to put in a grub menu.lst file > to cause a kickstart to happen for RH9 and later ? > > For rh80, it appears to be something along the lines of: > root (hd0,0) > kernel /path/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 > initrd /path/initrd.img > > One example in the archives from 3/24 gave an example that > looked like the following for a PXE boot via grub. > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /pxestuff/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi > initrd /pxestuff/initrd.img > append ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 \ > ramdisk_size=32768 network \ > ks=http://10.16.33.105/pub/kickstart/ks.cfg > > Looking at the boot.img file in rh9 seems to say that the > same stanza should work. > > So...are you saying that whatever we put in there will work > automagically due to RH switching to ramfs ? > > -- > ---------- Vince.Skahan@xxxxxxxxxx --------- > Connexion by Boeing - Cabin Network > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 5:51 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: does ramdisk_size matter ? > > > On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:47, Skahan, Vince wrote: > > right, so if I specify a really big ramdisk_size, > > I'm in good shape and I won't have to predict > > how RedHat changes the required ramdisk_size > > in future releases (?) > > Well, we've switched to using ramfs (as of Red Hat Linux 9) > to keep it from being a problem in the future > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ki> ckstart-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ki> ckstart-list >
