Peter Schwenk wrote:
I, the OP, am in fact doing a network install. I get the ball rolling
with the CD. I never tried Fedora 7, but Fedoras 6 and prior didn't
lock the CD in the drive during the network install. I am reluctant to
start killing processes during the install just so I can remove my CD as
dwight at supercomputer.org suggested. I'm booting from the Rescue CD
to do my installs, and one thing I noticed is that a message box pops up
indicating that the install found local install media. This message
hadn't appeared with the earlier Fedoras. I'll try to make a bare-bones
boot CD somehow with no install files to see if that helps keep the CD
from being locked in.
If you're doing a pure network install, then don't use the rescue disk :-)
Boot from 'boot.iso' (found in the main distribution). Then you can
select a network install (using kickstart or manually) and the CD can
be ejected once the system starts (it only contains the kernel and initial
ram disk)
On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:50 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
It sounds like there's some process left around which is keeping the
device open. That would be the first thing I'd check. If nothing is
obvious from a ps(1), then you'll have to dig deeper.
I'm going to take this to the Anaconda list, because it illustrates
something that's been on my mind for a while.
When I boot CD to net install (which I suppose the OP is doing coz
otherwise it doesn;t make sense to head for other parts, media in
hand), I'd like it to spit the CD out as soon as it's not required.
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