RE: Kickstart question

["Anderson, Bill" <bill anderson tdstelecom com>]

This thread made my ears perk up.  I have tried the things listed below as a
way to install RH 8.0 and 9 off the same CD and floppy by selecting the
kernel/initrd-img and ks.cfg to use from the boot: prompt  At the same time,
I figured I could use the same method to create a rescue CD-ROM for both
versions as well.  I seem to be missing something though.  Here is a listing
of my boot CD and my isolinux.cfg file:

[root brain cdrom]# ls -la
total 4877
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     wheel        4096 May 29 16:48 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Apr 30 09:05 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     root          716 May 29 16:49 TRANS.TBL
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         2048 May 29 16:49 boot.cat
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         426 May 29 15:26 boot.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         957 Mar 13 20:58 general.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel        9400 May 29 15:31 isolinux.bin
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          400 May 29 16:48 isolinux.cfg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         730 Mar 13 20:58 options.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         869 Mar 13 20:58 param.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         531 Mar 13 20:58 rescue.msg
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      551175 May 29 14:06 rh8-ird
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      852324 May 29 14:07 rh8-vml
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel     2704029 Mar 13 20:58 rh9-ird
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      855693 Mar 13 20:58 rh9-vml
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel         549 Mar 13 20:58 snake.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel        5420 Mar 13 20:58 splash.lss
[root brain cdrom]# cat isolinux.cfg
prompt 1
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 options.msg
F3 general.msg
F4 param.msg
F5 rescue.msg
F7 snake.msg
label rh8-install
  kernel rh8-vml
  append initrd=rh8-ird ks=hd:fd0:/rh8-ks.cfg
label rh9-install
  kernel rh9-vml
  append initrd=rh9-ird ks=hd:fd0:/rh9-ks.cfg
label rh8-rescue
  kernel rh8-vml
  append initrd=rh8-ird rescue
label rh9-rescue
  kernel rh9-vml
  append initrd=rh9-ird rescue

As far as I can tell, everything seems to be there.  However, then I enter
any of the labels, I get:  Could not fine kernel image: <rh8-vml/rh9-vml>

I sort of beta tested this concept on a floppy and it worked fine, but the
CD refuses to play nice.  Any help would be appreciated...


Bill Anderson
TDS Telecom ISS


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Black [mailto:richard black hp com]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:37 PM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Kickstart question


Some methods involve having a web server that can punch out diskettes 
based on choices the user makes.  Well, that's not what you want, ok, 
next...

A floppy would be too small because you really need to have the vmlinuz 
and initrd for each OS you are going to install.  The vmlinuz/initrd 
must match the installation files.

A CD-Rom or PXE install is more suited to do what you are talking about. 
 In either case you would just have a syslinux.cfg (or similar) that 
looks like this:

default rhl9
prompt 1
timeout 600
display F1.msg
F1 F1.msg
F2 F2.msg
F3 F3.msg
F4 F4.msg
F5 F5.msg
label rhl9
  kernel vmlinuz-rhl9
  append initrd=initrd-rhl9.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 
vga=788
label rhl80
  kernel vmlinuz-rhl80
  append initrd=initrd-rhl80.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 
vga=788
label rhl73
  kernel vmlinuz-rhl73
  append initrd=initrd-rhl73.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 
vga=788
label rhl72
  kernel vmlinuz-rhl72
  append initrd=initrd-rhl72.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 
vga=788
label rhl62
  kernel vmlinuz-rhl62
  append initrd=initrd-rhl62.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 
vga=788