Silly me. It was actually something fairly straightforward.
To make kickstart work off a bootable cd, you mount the pcmcia.img file as a
loopback device. There's a file called initrd.img, which is a compressed iso
image. So uncompress it and mount it as a another loopback device, and put the
ks.cfg file in /tmp of the initrd.img filesystem.
After that, just unmount initrd.img, recompress it, put it back in pcmcia.img,
unmount that, mkisofs your cdrom filesystem, burn the image, and viola,
kickstart off a bootable cd.
The one snag I did run into is that if you try to specify a file in the
initrd.img (using the ks=file:/foo label), it seems to start up a normal
install instead of a kickstart install. Not sure why. But if you just put the
ks.cfg file in /tmp, it finds it.
Anyway, hope that helps somebody out there some day.
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John Hyland
Software Developer
ZapMedia.com
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