Kickstart on CD

[Prasanna Ponnada]

I looked up TLDP project too, and it said the CD looksup the isolinux 
directory. I didnot put it in the root directory though. I will give it 
a shot with that too and see how it goes.
thanks!
Prasanna

Stuart J. Browne wrote:

> Prasanna,
>
> Where did you put the ks.cfg on the CD?  In the CD's /, or in the 
> 'isolinux/' directory?  From memory, it's a little tricky ;)  I ended 
> up putting it in both, just in case.
>
> bkx
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prasanna Ponnada" <prasanna at aol.net>
> To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:57 PM
> Subject: Kickstart on CD
>
>
>> I am trying to create a customized minimal linux CD by placing ks.cfg 
>> in the isolinux directory of my CD.
>> This way, I am not making use of the dosutils directory.
>> However, during the boot process, it fails to find the kickstart file 
>> on my CD and the installation halts.
>> On my other tty, I see the message "Searching for file on path 
>> /tmp/mnt//ks.cfg".
>>
>> Has anyone encountered the above issue before? Any help/pointers 
>> would be greatly appreciated. I am trying
>> create the CD using RHEL 4.0 (base version with no updates) for x86_64.
>> I am making use of the below mentioned URL to create my customized 
>> minimal Linux CD.
>> http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=650
>>
>> Please find the extract of my isolinux.cfg file in the isolinux 
>> directory below:
>> -bash-2.05b$ cat isolinux.cfg
>> default myks
>> prompt 1
>> timeout 0
>> display snake.msg
>> label myks
>>  kernel vmlinuz
>>  append ks=cdrom initrd=initrd.img text ramdisk_size=8192
>>
>> thanks
>> Prasanna
>>
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