-----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Rowlands Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:29 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Kickstarting FC2 installs On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: >Is it possible to do what I am trying (eg create a ks bootdisk and do >an nfs install of fc2)? Everything I have read leads me to believe it >can. So my question is, why am I seeing two different behaviors? The >only REAL difference is via PXE I load the vmlinuz and initrd.img from >the FC2/images/pxeboot tree rather than using say bootimg and dd to >create a boot disk. Would this cause this type of behavior? I tried to >get those two files onto my boot disk but alas they are too large for a >1.44M floppy. Erm, which files *did* fit? You'd need both vmlinuz and initrd to get the network drivers, without which you'd see, well, the issues you're having. You'd have to jump through a painful number of hoops to get working floppy bootdisk with FC2. Is CD-ROM an option? -- Ya, unfortunately a CD ks boot disk is required. The initrd and vmlinuz alone are well over the size of the floppy, plus, it seems that if you use a boot disk it wont find the ks.cfg file if provided over a network, as the network hasn't been loaded yet and this will fail. At least from what I am seeing, and a number of resources I have read. So to that end, unfortunately, I will burn to a miniCD and go that route, but what a waste. Thanks for the response Michael Weiner
