Contact Information: pzu.com Registration: 48ae02fea44143c7 Red Hat Linux 6.0/Intel Product: Red Hat Linux 6.0 Category: Bugs and other Problems Summary: kickstart installation problem Your Previous Description: As discussed a little while ago on the phone... I installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my system and I am trying to configure the kickstart installation. I downloaded the new boot and supp images and I use those now. I created the kickstart file ks.cfg and copied it to the boot diskette. I inserted the boot diskette and the installation CD and started the machine. At the prompt, I entered "linux ks=floppy" and pressed enter. The system loaded "initrd.img" and "vmlinuz", then I got the following error messages: - main screen: Error - mount failed: Invalid argument - install log (Alt-F3): * mounting fd0 on /tmp/floppy as ext2 * creating directory /tmp/floppy rc = 0 * calling mount(/tmp/fd0, /tmp/floppy, ext2, -1058209791, (nil)) - system log (Alt-F4) <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) <4>VFS: Cannot find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0) All I could do was press "OK" which I did. This brought up the following message: PCMCIA Disk: I failed to mount the floppy. Please insert the Red Hat PCMCIA disk, or choose Cancel to pick a different installation process. After inserting the PCMCIA disk, the above message was just redisplayed whenever I pressed enter. I did use the new boot image as suggested in the rh60-general-errata, however, the error was the same. I tried with a 1.44 and a 2.88 floppy drive attached externally to an IBM ThinkPad 760CD. While I could use the RedHat Linux 6.0 "ks.cfg" file together with the Redhat Linux 5.2 boot diskette, there are certain features (e.g. the auth directive) that do not work under RedHat Linux 5.2. Also, the password for the root userid was not properly set (i.e. I could not logon after the system was installed). Please let me know if there is already a solution for this problem or until when I can expect there to be one. Would it be possible to transfer the contents of the diskette to a different diskette with an ext2 filesystem? What would be the easiest way to do that? Here is an extract from the ks.cfg file I copied to the boot diskette: #----------------------------------------------------------- --------------- # Kickstart file for RedHat 6.0 an IBM ThinkPad 760CD #----------------------------------------------------------- --------------- lang en cdrom keyboard sg-latin1 zerombr yes clearpart --all part / --size 482 part swap --size 32 install mouse genericps/2 --device psaux --emulthree --noprobe timezone Europe/Zurich Thank you for your help Peter Zuerrer Peter Z|rrer e-mail: pzu.com Our Previous Response: At 7/22/99 1:21 PM we wrote - I'm sorry, but kickstart configuration is an administrative issue and doesn't fall under the installation support we can provide. For more information on our support policies, refer to appendix A of the install guide or http://charlotte.redhat.com/support/register/support-policy. html This may be a defect in kickstart. Bug reports should be submitted to QA and Development at http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/ I am closing this ticket because this is not a supported installation issue.