redhat-8.0 ks from harddrive

["Skahan, Vince" <vince skahan boeing com>]

Using redhat-8.0, I'm trying to install the /dev/hda disk from an
iso image and accompanying ks.cfg file located on /dev/hda2

I'm getting the cryptic message "hda2 is a protected partition"
in vt3 at the point where the kickstart explodes with a stack trace.

Any ideas what it doesn't like ?
 - does the iso image have to be named something in particular ?
 - does the iso image need to be mounted, or in a subdir or something ?

My /boot/grub/menu.lst file to call the kickstart looks like:
    title kickstart from hda2
    root (0,1)
    kernel /vmlinuz-ks root=/dev/ram devfs=nomount \
          ramdisk_size=9216 ks=hd:hda2/ks.cfg
    initrd /initrd-ks

(the kernel and initrd mentioned above are from the boot.img floppy
image that came with redhat-8.0, placed manually on hda2)

I can see by looking at /tmp/ks.cfg in the aborted installation
that it's grabbed the ks.cfg file from the top of /dev/hda2, not the
one at the top of the iso image itself.

My ks.cfg file looks as follows:
     harddrive --partition=hda2 --dir=/
     part /                   --fstype ext3 --size=5000 --asprimary --ondisk hda --onpart hda1
     part /var/tmp/iso   --fstype ext3 --size=2000 --asprimary --ondisk hda --onpart hda2 --noformat
     part swap --size 1000 --asprimary --ondisk=hda --onpart=hda3

Note that the installation has been previously kickstarted, so the partitions
were present and set up identically with a previous kickstart of the same
contents.  I've also commented out all the 'part' lines above and it does
try to kickstart, I'm prompted for the info and when I specify the same info,
it blows up the same way.

Any ideas ???


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