RE: KS located on USB floppy

[Robert Denton <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Message

I do not have the answer to your question but I wanted to contribute this: I set the bios on the machines I build to boot first to usb-cdrom, and I specify a ks.cfg file that is hosted on an http server that I have access to.  It makes it extremely easy to edit the contents of the ks file on the fly. and in between builds.  If you have access to such a machine you may want to consider that as an alternative.  For example you would:

 

linux ks=http://192.168.0.123/ks.cfg

 

Good luck.  r.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Armstrong [mailto:redhat.itellix@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:18 AM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: KS located on USB floppy

I am booting from a RHL7.2 CD and using a kickstart file on a floppy disk, and at the boot prompt I am typing "linux ks=floppy".

This works fine on several machines that have internal floppy drives, but on a newer Compaq iPaq that only has a USB floppy, I am getting an error as below:

 

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/ks.cfg'

 

Is this because I am using USB?  How can I make it work on this machine?

Many thanks.

 

David Armstrong