[TriLUG] kickstart questions

[Jason Tower]

thanks chris, you ain't on the SC for nothing!

ok now mr. smarty-pants, riddle me this:

i have a motherboard (MSI-6368) with onboard trident blade video.  if i try to 
install rh72 via nfs, it works beautifully.  if i try to install by booting 
the CD the installer fails to start X.  in both cases the video is detected 
properly, but the nfs method works while the CD method fails (it tries 
several times to start X using different servers before giving up and 
switching to text).  not a show-stopper but curious nonetheless.

and yes, kickstart is way cool (especially in conjunction with nfs), if poorly 
documented.  the redhat docs don't always jive with their sample config which 
doesn't match up exactly with my redhat press sysadmin book which is out of 
sync with several examples i've seen on the web which only sort of match my 
actual working ks.cfg.  but when it works it kicks big ol' booty.

jason

On Saturday 15 February 2003 22:51, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Kickstart is really cool.
>
> 1) From the redhat docs on
> kickstart:http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-gu
>ide
>
>
> You can also specify which packages not to install from the default
> package list:
>
> @ Games and Entertainment
> -kdegames
>
> 2) If you look on the boot diskette, there is a text file "syslinx.cfg"
> In that file, there are lines that start with append for each of the
> boot options.  Add ks=floppy to the line that is appropriate for you.
>
> HTH,
> CJK
>
> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 22:00, Jason Tower wrote:
> > 1. can i deselect individual packages that would otherwise be installed
> > as part of a package group?  and if that deselection results in a
> > dependency problem, can i provide an automatic answer (such as 'do not
> > install packages with unresolved dependenies')?
> >
> > 2. after copying the ks.cfg file to the boot floppy (created from the
> > boot.img file) i'd like to pass the 'linux ks=floppy' parameter to the
> > installer automatically instead of having to type it manually.  is this
> > possible?
> >
> > thanks all,
> >
> > jason
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