RHEL 5.4 - kickstart from USB external DVD

[Johnson, Roger]

>From: Mats Karlsson [mailto:mats.o.karlsson at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:52 AM
>To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>Subject: Re: RHEL 5.4 - kickstart from USB external DVD

>A workaround.

>You can place the kickstart file ks.cfg inside the initrd.img located
>in the cdrom. Then boot up the installer with command linux
>ks=file:/ks.cfg That's how I'm going around that problem when I'm not
>able to get the kickstart via http.


>Kind regards
>Mats

Thanks, Mats.  That looks like it will work.  I haven't created a custom
initrd.img as of yet so do you have some preferred site with
instructions?  I'll feel very foolish if it's well-document in anything
official (i.e., RedHat), but just thought I'd ask before consulting the
Google... <grin>

Also, anyone else who may have encountered this issue with a
USB-connected DVD drive, please chime in.  Although Mats' workaround
looks to do the trick, modifying initrd.img is more complicated to
maintain.  Any bootloader option or other trick to force the kernel to
load "usb-storage" before its checks for the location of the ks.cfg
would be appreciated.  I tried appending "usbstorage", but to no avail.
(Thought I might get lucky since there is a "nousbstorage" option...)

Thanks,
Roger
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