Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 3772
Several kickstart problems
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
1) My partition table was damaged during my first try. Apparently 'zerombr no' is to blame for this. The install goes through without it (after I had manually fixed the partition table, of course) 2) 'device ethernet ne --opts "io=0x220, irq=9"' results in autoprobing (?) for a ne card at 0x300 and failing. Then manual configuration kicks in (which is good, because the ks install then continues) 3) 'mouse whatever' doesnt work until I give '--device ttyS0' (does cua0 even exist?). This also kicks you out of the ks install. 4) 'xconfig' leaves the machine at blank screen. Pressing alt-F1 returns you to the install 5) 'rootpw --iscrypted xxxx' reencrypts the password. I thought this was fixed? 6) Perhaps add to the H.3.22 section of the install manual (%post section in a ks install) that 'If you intend to do anything useful, note that the root-filesystem-to-be (/ of the install) is located at /mnt, for example use rpm -i --root=/mnt xxxxxxxx'
Oh, and I _am_ using the 29-May-1999 images.
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setting the mouse to none in the ks.cfg also produces the same results.
I've run into this and ended up having to have a mouse connected to the machine during install (a pain in the ass because I do multiple simultaneous installs). I've been looking through the RH5.2 Installation manual, and it says to use something like: mouse --kickstart genericps/2 I have yet to try it with the --kickstart option though.
rootpw --iscrypted requires replacing the install2 binary on the install image. You can either force a supplementary disc, or copy the install2 binary on the errata supp.img (or in the Raw Hide install image, IIRC) to the install image.
The --iscrypted thingy can also be worked around in the post-section: ----- %post ROOTPW='encrypted-passwd-here' sed 's&root:[^:]*:&root:'$ROOTPW':&' < /etc/shadow > /tmp/shadow mv /tmp/shadow /etc/shadow chmod 0400 /etc/shadow
These issues are resolved in the latest installer available in beta.