Fwd: [rhn-users] PERC 4/Di and ES 2.1

[Ed Voncken]

Sorry, sent the mail privately instead of to the list address.


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From: Ed Voncken <edrandom at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:01:38 +0200
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] PERC 4/Di and ES 2.1
To: "Quince, Devin" <dquince at intrado.com>

Hi Devin,

>         I cannot even get the OS to install. How did you get past that?

Errr - I use a Kickstart server. I use a bootable CD, created from the
isolinux directory on the RHEL 2.1 Update 3 media. When booting from
that CD, it obtains the ks.cfg from the network.

The "device scsi megaraid_2002" line ensures that the kernel module is
loaded; this way the 4D/i controller is detected just fine.

Can you install the server interactively from the RHEL2.1 U3 media
(or, U5, since that seems to be released now)?

This is the configuration file:

[root at nlvu003 isolinux]# cat isolinux.cfg
default ks
prompt 0
timeout 0
label ks
  kernel vmlinuz
  append ks=http://kickstart.gdc1.ce.philips.com/cgi-bin/ks-cfg
ksdevice=eth0 initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168

This is the script used to create the CD image:

#!/bin/sh
# Create a bootable CD-ROM image for unattended Kickstart installations
chmod u+w isolinux/*
/usr/bin/mkisofs -o rhel21u3-ksboot.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T isolinux/
# EOF

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  Ed.



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