kickstart installation failure

[Gabe Green <gabe ac housing berkeley edu>]

Hello,

I have a series of identical Dell servers I'm trying to install RH Linux
7.1 on.  I did the first install manually - and partitioned the disk using
fdisk.  I'd like to use kickstart to copy the information from the one
server I did already, but I've encountered a few problems.

First, how do I tell kickstart to copy the exact partitioning information
I have done manually on the server I already installed Linux on?  please
see: http://ac.housing.berkeley.edu/~gabe/diskinfo.txt for the
partitioning information from the server in question.

Also, when I tried using the ks.cfg dumped from the server (gluttony) - I
modified it slightly to try to emulate the disk partition information (see
http://ac.housing.berkeley.edu/~gabe/ks.cfg), the installation crashed
when I booted from cdrom with arguement linux ks=floppy.  A brief look at
the virtual consoles, and they said something about hda or hda1 - when I
explicitly said in the ks.cfg that I wanted to use the first SCSI drive
(sda).   What am I doing wrong here?  Why did it crash, and how can I tell
it to partition the disk according to my exact specifications?

Thanks,

Gabe

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