This thread made my ears perk up. I have tried the things listed below as a way to install RH 8.0 and 9 off the same CD and floppy by selecting the kernel/initrd-img and ks.cfg to use from the boot: prompt At the same time, I figured I could use the same method to create a rescue CD-ROM for both versions as well. I seem to be missing something though. Here is a listing of my boot CD and my isolinux.cfg file: [root@brain cdrom]# ls -la total 4877 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4096 May 29 16:48 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Apr 30 09:05 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 716 May 29 16:49 TRANS.TBL -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 May 29 16:49 boot.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 426 May 29 15:26 boot.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 957 Mar 13 20:58 general.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9400 May 29 15:31 isolinux.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 400 May 29 16:48 isolinux.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 730 Mar 13 20:58 options.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 869 Mar 13 20:58 param.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 531 Mar 13 20:58 rescue.msg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 551175 May 29 14:06 rh8-ird -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 852324 May 29 14:07 rh8-vml -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2704029 Mar 13 20:58 rh9-ird -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 855693 Mar 13 20:58 rh9-vml -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 549 Mar 13 20:58 snake.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5420 Mar 13 20:58 splash.lss [root@brain cdrom]# cat isolinux.cfg prompt 1 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 options.msg F3 general.msg F4 param.msg F5 rescue.msg F7 snake.msg label rh8-install kernel rh8-vml append initrd=rh8-ird ks=hd:fd0:/rh8-ks.cfg label rh9-install kernel rh9-vml append initrd=rh9-ird ks=hd:fd0:/rh9-ks.cfg label rh8-rescue kernel rh8-vml append initrd=rh8-ird rescue label rh9-rescue kernel rh9-vml append initrd=rh9-ird rescue As far as I can tell, everything seems to be there. However, then I enter any of the labels, I get: Could not fine kernel image: <rh8-vml/rh9-vml> I sort of beta tested this concept on a floppy and it worked fine, but the CD refuses to play nice. Any help would be appreciated... Bill Anderson TDS Telecom ISS -----Original Message----- From: Richard Black [mailto:richard.black@xxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:37 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Kickstart question Some methods involve having a web server that can punch out diskettes based on choices the user makes. Well, that's not what you want, ok, next... A floppy would be too small because you really need to have the vmlinuz and initrd for each OS you are going to install. The vmlinuz/initrd must match the installation files. A CD-Rom or PXE install is more suited to do what you are talking about. In either case you would just have a syslinux.cfg (or similar) that looks like this: default rhl9 prompt 1 timeout 600 display F1.msg F1 F1.msg F2 F2.msg F3 F3.msg F4 F4.msg F5 F5.msg label rhl9 kernel vmlinuz-rhl9 append initrd=initrd-rhl9.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 vga=788 label rhl80 kernel vmlinuz-rhl80 append initrd=initrd-rhl80.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 vga=788 label rhl73 kernel vmlinuz-rhl73 append initrd=initrd-rhl73.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 vga=788 label rhl72 kernel vmlinuz-rhl72 append initrd=initrd-rhl72.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 vga=788 label rhl62 kernel vmlinuz-rhl62 append initrd=initrd-rhl62.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 vga=788
