Hi, There is a problem with Kickstart in combination with "xconfig". The Kickstart installation process runs until it starts 4xconfig'. On the xconfig section the automatic process is interrupted and returns to manual mode (I think it can't detect the monitor type or graphic card. I don't know exactly). If I select the monitor type VGA Ramsize etc. it doesn't go back to the kickstart installation process. The installation process only shows the message, that it was a successful installation. But there is still a lot to do left in the %post section (but this part seems to be totally ignored). I expand the Kickstartfile as follows: "ks.cfg" the "xconfig" parameters with my VGA Card information. I tried to use for example xconfig --card "ELSA Winner 2000/Office" --monitor "Generic01" --server "3DLabs" or xconfig --card "ELSA Winner 2000/Office" --monitor "Sony CPD-100ES" --server "3DLabs" or xconfig --card "ELSA Winner 2000/Office" --monitor "Sony CPD-100ES" xconfig --server "3DLabs" --monitor "Sony CPD-100ES" but I had no success. When the manual process starts it is detecting the card automatically I put in the Kickstart-file. I can`t understand it. I think, that is a bug in the installation-script. Why does the kickstart process abort after the x-Window configuration? We would like to use the kickstart installation process for automatic software distribution. It would make life for us a lot easier. We must install many PC's with the same configuration. We are a educational center and sometimes participants do strange things to the PCs. I sent this Problem to Martin Hamilton (the writer of the kickstart-HOWTO too and he answered as follows: "I think you'll find that most forms of manual intervention cause the Kickstart process to terminate, so you go back to manual install again." Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks for a quick answer in advance. :-) Muammer Arslan
There are several issues with the kickstart code handling in release 6.0 as well as 6.1 or Red Hat Linux. You can certainly try release 6.1 and see if that solves your problem, but you will probably want to take a look at the latest RawHide and see if they fix your problem. There has been a lot of work completed on kickstart during development of the new release. Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems.