Kickstart error

[Jyce]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:08:49 -0700
Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> Jean-Christophe Valiere wrote:
> >   Hello,
> > 
> >   I'm trying to install a RedHat Enterprise 3 with kickstart and nfs.
> >   I created a boot floppy with syslinux which contain the
> > vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.ELBOOT (renamed of counse). And I created my own initrd.img
> > which contain only the modules I need from /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.ELBOOT. When
> > the server boot it loads the vmlinuz and initrd.img successfully and ask me
> > some question like the keyboard configuration, language etc...
> >   First I don't want the install to ask me these question how can I do taht.
> 
> You have to set up the kickstart control file.  In it, you can control
> pretty much everything kickstart does including language, keyboard,
> installation method, partitioning, you name it.

The problem is that my boot floppy contain a file syslinux.cfg with the following entry:
label linux
kernel=vmlinuz
append ks=nfs:IP:/space/install/ks.cfg ...
My server is a HP DL380 and if I use the bootnet.img from hp I get the same error which seems normal
because it contain driver for 2.4.21-9 and my distrib is a 2.4.21-15. Execpt that the hp bootnet.img
doesn't ask me any question about keyboard ...

> 
> Red Hat includes the program "redhat-config-kickstart" to help you
> create this file.  Then you boot off the floppy and use the new
> kickstart config file.
> 
> >   Then I aswer to install over nfs and if ask me the driver. When I choose them
> > they are loaded successfully and it can mount nfs repository where the linux
> > source are. But it fails with the following error:
> >    The anaconda installation tree in that directory doesn't seem to match your
> > boot media.
> > 
> > If I swith the screen with Alt-F3, I see that:
> > * mounted IP:/space/rhel3as on /mnt/source
> > * can access stage2.img
> > * mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fs is 17
> > * unmounting loopback /mnt/runtime loop0
> > * after mountStage2, rc is -1
> > * not the right one
> > 
> > Does any body know where I am wrong ??
> 
> Anaconda (the installer) wants image names (blah.iso) that match what
> it's trying to install EXACTLY.  If you renamed the .iso files at all,
> your install will fail.

But I did not renamed the file, I've just copied the 4 RedHat CDRom in /space/rhel3as and
run /usr/sbin/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist.

	Thanks for the reply.
> 
> 
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