Ah. An external DVD drive maybe an easy solution. Molasses in winter slow over a USB port but pretty easy and reliable. For that matter, a typical USB thumbdrive is plenty large enough and has no moving parts to worry about.<br>
<br>Hmm. so it's not getting to the repo section in a kickstart as it's not even _doing_ the kickstart. <br><br>If the ks.cfg file is on the repo hard drive, the partition that holds it must be either vfat or ext2. anaconda will NOT fall back ext3 to ext2 so that can be a fail point.<br>
<br>You can also tweak to opening menu to not launch the regular installation and go straight to a kickstart installation.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">well certain machines have issues installing from cd, and the environment these machines are being deployed to, sand kills the optic drives fast. Also it's a HUGE IA issue if I try to connect these machines to the net. I am sure I will figure it out this week, then write a how-to on my linux blog.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
how are you trying to load it? Using a http repo is easiest but requires networking.<span><code><i><code></code></i><i><code></code></i></code></span><code><i><br>
</i></code> local hard drive with repo _should_ work with:<br>repo=hd:<dev>:<path><br>where <dev> is sda3, hda1, etc and path is full path from top of partition tree.<br><br>note: some version of anaconda changed the <dev> and required /dev/sda3 and the next release reverted back on next update (or was that reversed?)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I have a custom distro, built off of RHEL 5.8, I am trying to set it<br>
to install from the hard drive. For some reason, its ignoring my<br>
kickstarts, and firing up a reg rhel install. What could I be missing?<br>
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