Unable to eject boot cd during kickstart install
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Feb 14 23:31:59 UTC 2008
Peter Schwenk wrote:
> I, the OP, am in fact doing a network install. I get the ball rolling
> with the CD. I never tried Fedora 7, but Fedoras 6 and prior didn't
> lock the CD in the drive during the network install. I am reluctant to
> start killing processes during the install just so I can remove my CD as
> dwight at supercomputer.org suggested. I'm booting from the Rescue CD
> to do my installs, and one thing I noticed is that a message box pops up
> indicating that the install found local install media. This message
> hadn't appeared with the earlier Fedoras. I'll try to make a bare-bones
> boot CD somehow with no install files to see if that helps keep the CD
> from being locked in.
>
There's the boot.iso already available, that's what I use. With minor
surgery it's possible to get a ks file into it and have it used.
As you note, getting it out's the trick.
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John
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